D-Backs vs Cardinals match player stats | 2025 Series Game 2 Saturday, May 24th

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D-Backs vs Cardinals match player stats | 2025 Series Game 2 Saturday, May 24th

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Series Game 2 Matchup Details

Arizona Diamondbacks at St. Louis Cardinals
Series Game 2
Todays Game is on Saturday, May 24th
24/05/25 14:15:00 PM EST First Pitch

Positive Match Player Stats for D-Backs vs Cardinals Series Game 2 Matchup Today

The leading projection system (THE BAT) projects Merrill Kelly in the 76th percentile when assessing his overall pitching abilities.

Recording 94 adjusted pitches per start this year on average, Merrill Kelly falls in the 84th percentile.

Busch Stadium ranks as the #28 ballpark in Major League Baseball for home runs, according to the leading projection system (THE BAT).

Busch Stadium has the 2nd-deepest right field fences in MLB.

In his last game started, Merrill Kelly was on point and allowed 1 ER.

Out of all starting pitchers, Matthew Liberatore’s fastball spin rate of 2056 rpm grades out in the 7th percentile this year.

Considering the 1.45 deviation between Matthew Liberatore’s 2.92 ERA and his 4.37 estimated true talent ERA (via the leading projection system, THE BAT), it’s safe to say he’s been one of the luckiest pitchers in Major League Baseball this year and ought to perform worse the rest of the season.

Matthew Liberatore has tallied 17.4 outs per start this year, grading out in the 87th percentile.

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Busch Stadium has the 10th-lowest fence height (on average) among all parks.

Merrill Kelly’s fastball velocity has dropped 1 mph this season (91 mph) below where it was last year (92 mph).

Merrill Kelly’s cut-fastball percentage has decreased by 8.5% from last season to this one (25.2% to 16.7%) .

Merrill Kelly has been one of the luckiest mound aces in baseball on balls in play this year with a .237 BABIP and should see that luck normalize going forward.

Matthew Liberatore’s high usage percentage of his secondary pitches (61% this year) ought to work in his favor considering they are generally much more effective than fastballs.

Matthew Liberatore has notched a 2.42 FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching, an estimator of ERA that deals with the things a pitcher has the most control over) this year, grading out in the 95th percentile.

Matthew Liberatore has put up a 5.62 K/BB rate this year, checking in at the 93rd percentile.

The #9 park in the league for suppressing strikeouts, via the leading projection system (THE BAT), is Busch Stadium.

In his last start, Merrill Kelly didn’t have his best stuff when it came to striking batters out and only managed to post 1 Ks.

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