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3,318 rpm - Lugo, MetsĢ,970 rpm - Charlie Morton, Pirates (now with Astros)Ģ,953 rpm - Scott Oberg, Rockies Major League average - 2,386 rpm You don't get to be ranked that highly on the list if you don't have a ton of high-spin curves, and indeed Lugo does.

1 on this list, but check out the gap between him and the second-place pitcher. Over the two seasons of Statcast™, 307 pitchers have thrown at least 100 curveballs. Lugo doesn't just have the highest average curveball spin by a hair, he's got it by a lot. Gif: Lugo curve So what exactly does Lugo do so well? And what does spin mean, really? Here's your official Lugo Cheat Sheet to keep handy as he takes the field in front of Francisco Lindor, Carlos Correa, Javier Baez and the rest of the Puerto Rican team in San Diego. We knew this from the first moment Lugo stepped into the big leagues, when he made Anthony Rizzo look absolutely foolish late on a rainy night in Queens during his Major League debut, and it's a really good example of how we can use data to shine a spotlight on players you wouldn't have thought of and tell their stories in interesting ways. What Giancarlo Stanton is to exit velocity and Billy Hamilton is to baserunning and highlight reel defensive plays, Lugo is to spin rate. But odds are you mostly know the name because he's the closest thing to being a Statcast™ breakout star in the two years of our new advanced player tracking system. But you do, don't you? You might because he came up to reinforce a battered Mets staff by offering a 2.67 ERA in 17 appearances (eight starts) last year, or you might have discovered him when he threw 5 1/3 scoreless innings in Puerto Rico's 11-0 win against Venezeula on March 9. :: 2017 World Baseball Classic :: Because Lugo is not guaranteed a spot in the Mets' rotation, because he was a 34th-round pick out of tiny Centenary College in 2011, and because he never ranked highly on any prospect lists while putting up an ERA near six in Triple-A, you, by all rights, should not know his name. In the first meeting - a 6-5 Puerto Rico win on Friday - Lugo held the stacked American lineup to three earned runs in 5 2/3 innings. Tonight, Seth Lugo will lead Team Puerto Rico in a rematch against Marcus Stroman and Team USA in the World Baseball Classic championship game (9 p.m.