Blakely Lyden  
Starting Pitcher | Barcelona Matadors

Pitching
His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. The Barcelona Matadors 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. Sometimes I wish he'd just give up on throwing the changeup, it's like a BP ball! He's almost as effective against lefthanders as he is versus righthanders.

Defense & Hitting
Lyden remains one of the best fielding pitchers in the game's history. Lyden doesn't make much of an attempt to combat the running game. Basestealers ran at will last year. Lyden is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Lyden has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Barcelona Matadors have been known to use Lyden as a pinch-runner on occasion.

2014 Outlook
If Lyden doesn't perform, the Barcelona Matadors won't hesitate to send him down to the minors. I just don't know if The Barcelona Matadors 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
2008 BAR 84 45 25 37 46 42 52 50 51 57 38 0 0 49 0 0 22 0 Overhand Low Minors 3 6 40 50 192
2009 BAR 84 49 31 39 46 42 52 50 51 64 38 0 0 59 0 0 23 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 8 55 225
2010 BAR 85 50 39 40 46 42 52 50 51 64 44 0 0 65 0 0 24 0 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 64 252
2011 BAR 85 53 47 42 46 42 52 50 51 64 48 0 0 65 0 0 25 0 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 73 270
2012 BAR 94 55 57 44 46 42 52 50 51 67 48 0 0 65 0 0 26 0 Overhand Active 0 0 0 80 310
2013 BAR 94 56 64 45 46 42 52 50 51 69 48 0 0 68 0 0 27 0 Overhand Active 0 0 0 85 328
2014 BAR 94 60 64 45 46 42 52 50 51 69 48 0 0 70 0 0 28 1 Overhand Active 0 0 0 89 297
Ratings Delta     +4                       +2     +1 +1           +4 -31
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.