Mets starter who throws most fastballs unexpected

Among the surprising statistics in the table below are that

• Bartolo Colon is primarily a fastball pitcher who rarely throws a slider and almost never throws a curveball.
• Noah Syndergaard and Logan Verrett throw sliders fewer than 10% of the time.
• Steven Matz throws a higher percent of curveballs than any other Mets starter and has the biggest velocity difference between his fastball and changeup.

#Mets 7.18.16: Surprising Colon doesn't throw curveballs (CB%) & how often he throws fastballs (88.4%). CT=cutter pic.twitter.com/uy8UHQ2sBz

— writerhoward (@metbaseball) July 18, 2016

Steven Matz's fastball not as fast as expected

I never expected that the starting Mets pitcher with the slowest average fastball velocity this season would be Steven Matz, his four-seamer taking even longer to reach the catcher's mitt than Bartolo Colon's or that Matt Harvey, with his health issues, would have the third fastest average velocity.

On the other hand, the fact that Harvey lasted the fewest innings per start (IP/GS) among the main "starting five" could have been a red flag that something was wrong.
Source of info in table: FanGraphs

Average velocity of #StevenMatz's fastball (vFA) less than #BartoloColon's, lowest of #Mets starters. Unexpected. pic.twitter.com/h2oLWGUqxS

— writerhoward (@metbaseball) July 17, 2016