Pitchers for Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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Reading the Table
Each row is a probable starter. The stat columns describe how he misses bats; the OPP columns describe how strikeout-prone today's opponent is.
- K% / Whiff% / CSW% / SwStr% — the pitcher's strikeout, whiff, called+swinging-strike, and swinging-strike rates for the selected window. This is the pitcher axis — how good he is at missing bats.
- OPP K-RANK / OPP K% — how often the offense he faces strikes out. In Rank, 1 = the offense that strikes out the most, out of all 30 teams, which is the softest matchup for the pitcher; the higher the number, the harder that lineup is to strike out. With Offense Stats: vs Hand picked, each offense is ranked on how it has hit pitchers who throw with the same hand as tonight's starter. A good matchup pairs a pitcher who misses bats with a lineup that misses them too.
- Lineup K — a grade of how exploitable today's specific 1–9 is for strikeouts, given the pitcher's best pitches. This is the opponent axis, separate from K%: read K% for the arm, Lineup K for the spot. A weak-K pitcher against a genuinely K-prone lineup still grades high. Runs 0–100, with most spots landing ~15–82; 50 = league-average — red is a tough strikeout matchup, green a soft one. ● = confirmed lineup, ◐ = projected. Follows the window filter (L7/L15/L30 use a recent-form read; L60/Season use the full year).
- K Targets — how many bats in tonight's lineup are genuine strikeout targets for him, out of the whole lineup. It is a plain count, so six borderline targets and six severe ones read the same here. Lineup K is the column that weighs how vulnerable each bat is, which is why it can rank five deep targets above six shallow ones. Read K Targets for how many, Lineup K for how bad. Open a row to see which bats they are.
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- Recent starts — last 3 / 5 / 10 / season starts with K / BB / ER / ERA
- vs RHH / vs LHH splits — K%, Whiff%, CSW%, SwStr% for the chosen window
- Lineup Read — the batter-by-batter version of Lineup K: each hitter's tier (K Target / Lean / Average / Low K), a 0–100 matchup Score, his season K%, his K pitch, and the overlap-vs-league edges (whiff / chase / putaway…). The K-pitch cell is the scored pitch (putaway-based); when a hitter's nastiest swing-and-miss pitch is a different one, it shows as a small whf line below — flavor, not scored. Sortable — tap any header. K Target rows are tinted so the soft bats pop. Toggle to a Full Team view or to that team's recent games.
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Rank: 1 = the offense that strikes out the most, the softest matchup for the pitcher. The higher the number, the harder that lineup is to strike out.
PitcherK%LINEUP KK TARGETSOPP K
L. HendersonR5:40 PM@
PHI—523/9—A. NolaR5:40 PMvsMIL—716/9—
C. SaleL6:15 PMvs
CIN—603/9—A. AbbottL6:15 PM@ATL—646/9—5:40 PMLogan Henderson(R)
Logan Henderson(R)@ PHI
—523/9—PHI5:40 PMAaron Nola(R)
Aaron Nola(R)vs MIL
—716/9—MIL6:15 PMChris Sale(L)
Chris Sale(L)vs CIN
—603/9—CIN6:15 PMAndrew Abbott(L)
Andrew Abbott(L)@ ATL
—646/9—ATLK%
17%20%22%26%30%
CSW%
25%27%28%30%32%
WHIFF%
19%22%25%28%31%
SWSTR%
9%11%12%14%15%
OPP K%
17%20%22%26%30%
OPP K-RANK
#30#22#15#8#1
Click any column header to sort. Click a row to open the pitcher detail.
About the MLB Pitchers board
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Every probable starting pitcher today, with how often he strikes hitters out and how easy the lineup he faces is to strike out. It reads a start as a matchup against nine specific hitters rather than as one season-long rate.
How to read it
Strikeout columns describe how often a pitcher misses bats and how that projects against the order he faces, with the per-batter read available underneath. Arsenal detail breaks a pitcher into his individual pitches — usage, velocity and results — so a fastball-heavy start against a lineup that punishes fastballs reads differently from the same pitcher’s season line. Velocity drift markers flag an arm throwing harder or softer than his own baseline.