Who Are Ya: Kevin Correia

Right handed starter Kevin Correia gets the nod for the Twins today as the Blue Jays counter with J.A. Happ. Correia, a 33-year-old pitcher from San Diego signed for Minnesota this season after spending two seasons in Pittsburgh as a back end of the rotation guy. His free agent contract with the Twins covers this season and next, totalling $10 million ($4.5 million this year and $5.5 in 2014). The change of scenery hasn't changed the way Correia pitches (which is why this exists) as he has a 4.18 ERA and a 4.45 FIP, which are similar to the numbers he's had for his whole career. Correia doesn't walk anyone (2.12 BB/9) or strike anyone out (5.02 K/9) relying on ground balls to get him out of trouble.

Correia features a four-seamer, sinker, changeup, curveball, and a cutter. His hard stuff sits in the mid-90's and his cutter, which he throws over a third of the time, stays around the high 80's range. He doesn't get a lot of whiffs, but his aforementioned cutter is likely his best pitch.

As you can see, he locates his sweeping curve on the outside half:

via www.fangraphs.com

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TankFest 2013

Things aren't so good on the tanking front as the team would get the 13th pick currently, but at least the team is winning:

This might be the most boring game of the whole season today, but hopefully something wild happens that proves me wrong.