Duke Brown  
Starting Pitcher | Free Agents

Pitching
His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. The Free Agents hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. He tends to work slowly when in a jam, which just makes his problems worse by lulling his fielders to sleep. His stuff becomes less sharp as he gets into the late innings. Sometimes I wish he'd just give up on throwing the changeup, it's like a BP ball! He changes speeds well enough to keep righthanders from teeing off on him.

Defense & Hitting
He's reasonably quick to the plate but needs to vary his pickoff moves. Good baserunners appeared to time him last year. He isn't especially quick off the mound but generally fields his position adequately. Brown is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Brown has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Free Agents have been known to use Brown as a pinch-runner on occasion.

2014 Outlook
I just don't know if The Free Agents are ever going to get what they expect out of him.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
2003 ATL 88 66 66 60 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 54 0 48 0 0 23 4 Overhand Active 0 0 0 63 324
2004 ATL 88 66 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 55 0 48 0 0 25 5 Overhand Active 0 0 0 63 323
2005 ATL 88 66 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 48 0 0 26 7 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 63 324
2006 ATL 88 66 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 48 0 0 26 7 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 63 324
2007 FA 87 66 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 49 0 0 28 8 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 63 321
2008 FA 87 66 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 49 0 0 29 9 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 63 320
2009 FA 87 66 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 49 0 0 30 10 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 63 319
2010 FA 87 66 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 49 0 0 31 11 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 63 318
2011 FA 87 66 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 49 0 0 32 12 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 63 317
2012 FA 85 64 66 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 49 0 0 33 13 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 63 311
2013 FA 85 62 65 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 49 0 0 34 14 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 61 307
2014 FA 84 60 64 62 53 51 47 47 44 56 48 56 0 49 0 0 35 15 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 61 301
Ratings Delta   -1 -2 -1                           +1 +1             -6
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Tue May 10 16:22:47 EDT 2005

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.