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Eno Sarris, Special to ESPN.com 8y

Don't feed curves to Joey Votto or fastballs to Mark Trumbo

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Thursday, we looked at the best pitches in baseball by the numbers. It didn't take numbers to know that facing Zack Britton's sinker or Noah Syndergaard's slider is an unpleasant experience, but it was fun to rank the pitches anyway.

Today, it's time to flip the switch. The sample would be too small to say what a specific hitter would do against a specific pitchers' pitch. But we can say which hitters are the best against different pitch types. Which hitter shellacks sliders? Who's the guy who wrecks curveballs?

We have pitch-type values on FanGraphs that measure the value of events that happen on each pitch. So you can sort our leaderboards and find out that nobody handles a specific pitch as well as Khris Davis handles a curveball.

But I thought it would be fun to open fastballs up and include more subsets in the data. How about fastballs in? Away? Up or down? So I ran the data on those fastballs in those quadrants, and then added the curves, changeups, and sliders back in. I used OPS to judge the hitter's execution against those pitches, and used 200 pitches as a minimum for fastballs, and 100 for off-speed pitches.

With that done, here are your OPS leaders against specific pitches.

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