Young targets, 2024 mid-season
Jun 29 2024
With three months of data at our disposal, let's identify the most skilled young starting pitchers so far in 2024.
Here are the starting pitchers age 26 or under (min 30 IP) who have posted the best skills as measured by BPV:
| Name | Lg | Age | K% | BB% | K-BB% | GB% | SwK% | FpK% | Ball% | BPV |
| Garrett Crochet | AL | 25 | 35% | 5% | 30% | 45% | 15.3% | 64% | 33% | 195 |
| Paul Skenes | NL | 22 | 34% | 4% | 29% | 45% | 14.5% | 67% | 31% | 194 |
| Yoshinobu Yamamoto | NL | 25 | 28% | 6% | 22% | 49% | 11.7% | 63% | 33% | 155 |
| Braxton Garrett | NL | 26 | 21% | 3% | 19% | 51% | 9.3% | 70% | 34% | 152 |
| Tanner Bibee | AL | 25 | 29% | 6% | 23% | 38% | 13.0% | 68% | 34% | 151 |
| George Kirby | AL | 26 | 24% | 2% | 22% | 38% | 11.4% | 68% | 30% | 150 |
| Cole Ragans | AL | 26 | 30% | 8% | 22% | 41% | 14.8% | 61% | 35% | 135 |
| Nick Lodolo | NL | 26 | 25% | 7% | 19% | 46% | 12.7% | 65% | 36% | 127 |
| Taj Bradley | AL | 23 | 30% | 9% | 21% | 37% | 12.8% | 63% | 36% | 125 |
| Jared Jones | NL | 22 | 27% | 7% | 19% | 41% | 15.5% | 63% | 32% | 123 |
| MacKenzie Gore | NL | 25 | 27% | 8% | 19% | 35% | 12.9% | 56% | 35% | 122 |
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