Game Breakdown: Tony Cingrani

Season Stats

Tm	W	L	ERA	IP	H	HR	BB	SO	WHIP	K/BB
Bakersfield	5	1	1.11	56.2	39	2	13	71	0.92	5.5
Pensacola	5	1	1.29	49	30	3	17	52	0.96	3.1
Total	10	2	1.19	105.2	69	5	30	123	0.94	4.1

Scouting Background

Tony Cingrani throws a fastball with late movement on it in the 90-91 MPH range and can touch 92-93. He has a slider with potential to be an above-average pitch. It is still inconsistent, but flashes itself as a strong pitch. He also has a change up that can be a very good pitch, but he seemingly doesn’t trust much and thus doesn’t throw it often.

Game Information

For this game I looked at the best game Cingrani has had in his career. He went 8 innings of shutout ball with just 3 hits, a walk and had 15 strikeouts on June 27th in Pensacola. You can see the box score here.

Game Breakdown

Here is the pitch by pitch breakdown of the game. Some of the fastballs may have been change ups, but the announcer was pretty good in calling which pitch was coming in so I feel that the pitch ID is fairly accurate.

Pitch	Type	Target?	Result	Position	Notes
1	FB	Hit	Called K	Middle Low
2	FB	Missed	Ball	Middle High
3	FB	Missed	Swinging K	High Inside
4	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Inside	Strikeout
5	FB	Missed	Ball	High Outside
6	FB	Hit	Called K	Middle Low
7	FB	Hit	Called K	Middle Low
8	FB	Missed	Swinging K	High Middle	Strikeout
9	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Outside
10	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Low Outside	Video below
11	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Low Outside	Strikeout
12	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Outside
13	SL	Hit	Swinging K	Low Outside	Solid Slider
14	FB	Hit	Ball	Low Inside
15	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Middle
16	FB	Missed	Called K	Middle Outside	Strikeout
17	SL	Missed	Ball	Middle Outside	Not so good of a slider – Flat
18	FB	Missed	Ball	High Outside
19	FB	Missed	GB to 3B	Low Inside	Ground Out
20	Camera	Missed	The	pitch
21	SL	Hit	Called K	Low Inside	Not so good of a slider
22	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Inside
23	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Outside	Flat slider
24	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Inside
25	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Low Outside	Nice tail away from the batter
26	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Outside
27	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Outside
28	SL	Hit	Swinging K	Middle Low	Solid Slider
29	Camera	Missed	The	pitch
30	CH	Hit	Swinging K	Middle Low
31	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle Outside
32	Camera	missed	the	pitch	Slider – strikeout
33	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Inside
34	FB	Hit	Ball	Low Inside
35	FB	Missed	Foul	Low Inside
36	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Low Inside
37	FB	Missed	Foul	Low Inside
38	FB	Hit	Swinging K	High Outside	Strikeout
39	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Inside
40	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Outside	Loopy Slider
41	CH	Hit	Foul	Low Middle
42	FB	Hit	Swinging K	High Middle	Strikeout
43	FB	Hit	Swinging K	High Middle
44	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Outside
45	SL	Hit	Foul	Low Outside	Good looking slider – best so far
46	FB	Hit	Swinging K	High Middle	Strikeout
47	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Middle
48	FB	Missed	FB to RF	Low Outside	Fly Out
49	FB	Hit	Foul	High Middle
50	CH	Missed	Ball	Middle dirt
51	FB	Missed	Foul	Middle inside
52	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle inside
53	FB	Missed	Foul	Middle inside
54	SL	Missed	Swinging K	Low Outside	Solid Slider – Strikeout
55	Camera	Missed	The	Pitch
56	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Inside
57	FB	Missed	Ball	High Middle
58	FB	Hit	Ball	Low Inside
59	FB	Hit	Ball	Low Inside	Walk
60	FB	Missed	Ball	High Outside	Picked off runner before pitch 61
61	FB	Hit	Called K	High Middle
62	FB	Missed	Foul	Low Middle
63	CH	Hit	Foul	Low Middle
64	SL	Missed	Ball	Outside dirt
65	FB	Missed	Called K	Low Inside	Strikeout
66	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Outside
67	FB	Missed	Foul	High Inside
68	SL	Hit	GB to 3B	Middle Outside	Solid Slider – GO to 3B
69	FB	Hit	Foul	Low Outside
70	SL	Hit	Foul	Low Outside	Solid Slider
71	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Middle inside	Strikeout
72	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Middle inside
73	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Inside	Flat slider
74	FB	Missed	Ball	Middle inside
75	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Outside
76	FB	Missed	Foul	Middle Middle	Foul by about 3 feet or it was a long home run
77	FB	Hit	Called K	Low Inside	Strikeout
78	FB	Hit	Foul	Middle inside
79	FB	Hit	LD to LF	Low Middle	Single – Breaks up no hitter
80	FB	Missed	Ball	Low Inside
81	SL	Hit	Swinging K	Low Middle	Solid Slider
82	SL	Missed	Swinging K	Low Inside	Good looking slider
83	FB	Hit	FB to RF	Middle Outside	Fly Out
84	SL	Hit	Ball	Low Outside	Solid Slider
85	FB	Missed	Foul	Middle Outside
86	FB	Hit	Called K	Middle Low	Runner Caught Stealing ends inning
87	FB	Hit	Foul	Low Inside
88	FB	Missed	Ball	High Middle
89	FB	Missed	Foul	Low Outside
90	SL	Missed	Ball	Low Inside	Average slider
91	FB	Missed	Foul	Middle High
92	FB	Hit	GB to LF	Middle Low	Single to LF
93	FB	Hit	Called K	Middle inside
94	CH	Hit	GB to SS	Middle Low	GIDP: 5-4-3
95	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Middle High
96	FB	Missed	LD to RF	Middle Outside	Triple to RF
97	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Middle High
98	FB	Hit	Swinging K	Middle Low
99	FB	HIt	Foul	Low Outside
100	SL	HIt	Swinging K	Low Outside	Nice looking slider – Strikeout

Statistical Breakdown

Pitch	Selection	Strike Rate	Ball	Called K	Swing K	Foul	In Play
Fastball	75%	76%	18	18	15	17	6
Slider	21%	65%	7	1	7	2	1
Change Up	4%	80%	1	0	1	2	1

Overall Impressions

This was easily Cingrani’s best game of the year and of his professional career. 15 strikeouts and just 1 walk while taking a no hitter into the 7th inning? Yeah, it is hard to top that kind of game. The rub on Cingrani has been that he has been dominating with his fastball and he was able to do so again in this game. However he also was able to throw his slider in impressive fashion several times in the game too. It was inconsistent, but showed itself as a good pitch more than a few times. This was by far the best that his slider had been in the 5 starts I have seen him make and it wasn’t as strong in either of his next two starts. If his slider can become more consistent, it is a good enough pitch to give him two quality offerings. His change up wasn’t shown much in the game and hasn’t been shown much in other games either. Scouts seem to believe that it is an above-average pitch, but Cingrani doesn’t seem to trust it and it showed as he hardly used it in this or in other games. Overall, if he can trust and refine his secondary stuff, he has a very high ceiling that he could reach. But at age 23 he is still inconsistent with his secondary pitches, so there is concern that he will struggle to do so.

Here is a quick video showcasing his fastball:

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You can also see his slider from the game here (click this link if the video doesn’t work properly):
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