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Joey Lucchesi

2026
Angels· LHP · throws L· 3.1 IP· 13.50 ERA· 3.90 WHIP· 24 BF

Grade

How good he's been, and at what

Too few batters faced to grade

Joey Lucchesi has faced 24 batters this season. A rate built on that few swings wildly on a single result, so this page shows no grade and no comparison to the league average or the league best — there is nothing here those numbers could honestly be put next to.

A grade needs 40 batters faced. League averages and percentiles are measured over pitchers with at least 100 batters faced. What follows is what actually happened, with no grade attached to it.

Arsenal

What he throws, and what it does

Pitch mix & swing-and-miss

Sinker
51%
91.8 mph
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cost 0.5 per 1000.3 total
Curveball
not charted
27%
77.5 mph
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Four-Seam Fastball
not charted
14%
92.4 mph
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Splitter
not charted
8%
81.6 mph
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Only his sinker is in the charts below — the rest were tracked too rarely to plot.

How to read this chart
What they throw, how hard, and what misses bats — from pitch tracking, regular season only.

Mix by batter side

Sinker
52% vs LHH
50% vs RHH
How to read this chart
How the mix shifts against lefty and righty bats.

By appearance

How the stuff has held up outing to outing

One point per outing — how his velocity, movement, and pitch mix have moved across the season, with league context for scale. Each pitch keeps the same color in every chart. Only his sinker is in these charts — the rest were tracked too rarely to plot.

Contact allowed

What hitters do when they connect

Batters go to the opposite field off him most often, and that's where the hardest contact comes from.

Pull and oppo are relative to each batter's stance, so this pools all the hitters he faced.

Batted balls allowed

Where every ball hit off Joey Lucchesi landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Lane ThomasHome run
EV 101 mph · LA 27° · EB 1.9
04/26 vs Royals
vs Jake MeyersDouble
EV 99 mph · LA 27° · EB 1.7
03/28 vs Astros
vs Munetaka MurakamiSingle
EV 107 mph · LA 4° · EB 0.7
04/28 vs White Sox
vs Andrew BenintendiSingle
EV 101 mph · LA 13° · EB 0.7
04/28 vs White Sox
vs Yordan AlvarezSingle
EV 103 mph · LA 6° · EB 0.6
03/28 vs Astros
How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB) — what the contact was worth, regardless of what the defense did with it. So a dark hollow ring in the outfield is a crushed ball his defense ran down. Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two, and use the ▶ links to watch a play on Baseball Savant.

Times through order

What happens the third time they see him

Best games

His biggest outings this year

Best games

His best outings this season by bases saved vs a replacement arm.

Multi-season trends · Joey Lucchesi

HR allowed% up, BB% up, K% down vs last season

Actual rates — what happened on the field, season by season.