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Consequently, it was no surprise to see him lean into his hammer as his premier weapon and most frequently thrown pitch overall, doing so 39.9% of the time in the low-80s.<\/p>\n
It tunnels well off of the cutter, with 18.3 inches of vertical offset, 10.9 inches of horizontal offset, and an eye-watering 13 mph difference in velocity.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, if this usage were to translate to MLB, it would rank as the highest curveball percentage usage amongst any pitcher league-wide (min. 1,000 total pitches).<\/p>\n
The pitch boasts elite spin, averaging around 2,800 rpm. It consistently creates a sharp overall vertical drop (46.3 inches) and a late bite that consistently fools hitters.<\/p>\n
Opponents struggle with just a .246 wOBA against, supported by a blistering 42.6% whiff rate. This clears the typical 40% threshold requirement of a plus offering.<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to note the success he had in the bottom third of the zone, where the pitch mustered a mere 0.145 wOBA against.<\/p>\n When Luinder is forced to attack hitters at the bottom of the zone, the bender is a fantastic option. Regardless of location, this is his go-to strikeout offering, as evidenced by his 47.1% whiff percentage and 0.148 wOBA against in two-strike counts.<\/p>\n Avila\u2019s sinker sits comfortably at 94\u201395 mph with late arm-side life (12.6 inches of run) and some depth off the cutter (1.8 inches offset).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.justbaseball.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Consequently, it was no surprise to see him lean into his hammer as his premier weapon and most frequently thrown pitch overall, doing so 39.9% of the time in the low-80s. It tunnels well off of the cutter, with 18.3 inches of vertical offset, 10.9 inches of horizontal offset, and an eye-watering 13 mph difference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Luinder-Avila-Is-the-Most-MLB-Ready-Arm-in-the-Royals.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264742,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264740\/revisions\/2264742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sinker<\/h3>\n