Game Breakdown: Daniel Corcino

Scouting Background

Pitches: Corcino has a fastball that works in the low 90’s and can touch 95-96 MPH. He throws a good slider in the low 80’s and a solid change up.

Mechanics: Very similar to the older Johnny Cueto before he began turning his back to home plate.

Game information

The game profiled below is the game from May 20, 2012. Corcino went 6 innings and allowed 2 runs on 4 hits, 2 walks and 9 strikeouts. You can see the box score from the game here.

Game Breakdown

Here is the pitch by pitch breakdown. Please note that this game was watched online, so some of the fastballs (likely a few of them) could have just as easily have been change ups since the radar gun was not shown on screen and I could only note velocity when it was mentioned by the broadcasters.

Pitch	Type	Target?	Result	Position	Notes
1	FB	Missed	Ball	High Inside
2	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
3	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Low Outside
4	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
5	FB	Hit	Single	Low Outside
6	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Inside
7	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Low Outside
8	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Low Middle
9	FB	Hit	Swinging Strike	Low Outside	Strikeout
10	FB	Hit	Ball	Middle Outside
11	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Low
12	SL	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Low
13	FB	Missed	Ball	High Middle
14	FB	Missed	Ball	High Middle	Runner CS
15	FB	Missed	Ball	Middle Outside	Walk
16	FB	Hit	Ball	Middle Outside
17	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Low
18	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Low
19	FB	Missed	Ball	Way Inside in dirt
20	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Inside
21	SL	Missed	Ball	Middle in dirt
22	FB	Hit	Line out	Middle Middle	Line out to 2B
23	FB	Missed	Ball	High Middle	Start 2nd Inning
24	FB	Hit	Foul	Low Inside
25	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
26	FB	Missed	Ball	High Outside
27	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Inside
28	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Inside	Walk
29	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Middle
30	SL	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Low
31	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
32	SL	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Low	Strikeout
33	FB	Missed	Ball	Middle Outside
34	FB	Hit	Foul	Low Outside
35	SL	Hit	In Play	Middle Low	Deflected by Corcino’s glove and into shallow RF
36	FB	Missed	Called Strike	Middle Outside
37	FB	Missed	Called Strike	Middle Outside
38	FB	Hit	Ball	Middle High
39	FB	Hit	Swinging Strike	Middle Outside	Strikeout
40	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Inside
41	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Middle
42	FB	Hit	Foul	Low Outside
43	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
44	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
45	FB	Missed	Ball	High Outside
46	FB	Hit	Swinging Strike	High Middle	Strikeout
47	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
48	CH	Missed	Ball	Middle Low
49	CH	Hit	Swinging Strike	Middle Low
50	SL	Missed	Swinging Strike	Outside Low	Strikeout
51	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
52	CH	Missed	Fly Out CF	Middle Inside
53	SL	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Outside
54	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
55	SL	Hit	Swinging Strike	Middle Outside	Strikeout
56	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Inside
57	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
58	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Middle
59	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Low Outside
60	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
61	SL	Missed	Swinging Strike	Low Inside	Strikeout
62	SL	Missed	Ball	Middle Outside
63	FB	Hit	Swinging Strike	Middle Outside
64	FB	Hit	Foul	Low Outside
65	FB	Missed	Ball	High Middle
66	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Middle
67	FB	Missed	Foul	Middle Inside
68	FB	Hit	Swinging Strike	Middle Outside	Strikeout
69	SL	Missed	Ball	Middle Outside
70	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Inside
71	SL	Hit	Swinging Strike	Low Outside
72	SL	Hit	Ground out 3B	Low Outside	Ground Out to 3B
73	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Outside
74	FB	Missed	Swinging Strike	High Middle
75	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
76	SL	Hit	Fly Out LF	Middle Outside	Fly out to LF
77	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
78	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Outside
79	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Low Outside
80	FB	Hit	Ball	Middle Outside
81	SL	Hit	Foul	Low Outside
82	FB	Hit	Ball	Low Outside
83	FB	Hit	Foul	Low Outside
84	FB	Missed	Swinging Strike	High Inside	Strikeout
85	CH	Missed	Ball	Low Inside
86	FB	Missed	Ball	Middle Inside
87	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Low
88	FB	Hit	Pop up to SS	Middle Outside
89	FB	Missed	Ball	Way inside	To the backstop
90	FB	Hit	Single to LF	Middle Outside	Inside out swing blooper
91	SL	Missed	Swinging Strike	Low Inside
92	SL	Missed	Home Run	Middle Middle	Hanging Slider that went 800 feet (slight exaggeration)
93	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Outside
94	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
95	FB	Missed	Foul	High Way Inside	Hit the knob of the bat
96	SL	Hit	Ground out to SS	Low Outside	Easy Grounder to SS
97	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Middle Outside
98	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
99	FB	Missed	Ball	Low in the dirt
100	FB	Hit	Fly out to LF	Middle Outside	Another lazy inside out soft fly ball
101	FB	Hit	Called Strike	Low Outside
102	FB	Hit	Swinging Strike	Middle Outside
103	CH	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
104	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
105	SL	Hit	Fly out to CF	Low Outside	Shallow FB to CF

Statistical Breakdown

Again, I would just like to note that some fastballs, and likely there were a few, were probably change ups and that the numbers would be skewed some in regards to the fastball/change up data.

Pitch	Selection	Strike Rate	Ball	Called K	Swing K	Foul	In Play
Fastball	70%	69%	23	17	8	21	5
Change Up	5%	60%	2	0	1	1	1
Slider	25%	62%	10	4	5	1	6

Overall Observations

I still believe that Corcino is the best starting pitching prospect that we have in the system and I didn’t see anything that changed my opinion of that. There were times when his offspeed stuff was very good and his fastball was in control. There were some times when he struggled to control everything and he hung a slider that may still be orbiting the planet. But overall, his stuff showed itself as advertised. He is still likely a year and a half away from being ready for the Majors. He needs to get more consistent with his mechanics, which will help improve his control and command.

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