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Spencer Turnbull

Tigers Career team 2018–2023
Number #22
Position Relief Pitcher
Bats Right
Throws Right
Age 33
Height 6' 3"
Weight 210 lbs
Birth Place Demopolis, AL
Born Sep 18, 1992

Key Insights

2025
His fastball is the pitch everything else is built on

Turnbull's 4-seam fastball averages 90.9 mph, and has touched 92.9.

47 thrown, 37.6% of his pitches.
He lives on the edges rather than over the middle

12% of Turnbull's pitches land in the middle third of the zone, well below what most pitchers give away.

15 of 125 located pitches.
How much of the zone he uses depends on the count

Turnbull puts 54.3% of his pitches in the zone when he is behind and 23.7% when he is ahead.

35 located pitches behind, 38 ahead.
One type of hitter does all the damage against him

Hitters do their damage on his fastballs: a .373 expected average against them, against .300 on his breaking balls.

55 of his fastballs thrown.
He saves one pitch for one side of the plate

Turnbull throws the sweeper 30.9% of the time against right-handers and 6.8% against left-handers.

81 pitches to right-handers, 44 to left-handers.
The angle he throws from is unusual, and hitters notice

Turnbull releases the ball from a low three-quarters slot, about 36 degrees above horizontal and 1.6 feet to the third-base side of the rubber.

125 tracked release points, averaging 5.5 feet off the ground.

Movement Profile (Induced Break)

Catcher's Perspective • Pitch movement relative to a spinless ball

Player Bio Data
DOB Sep 18, 1992
Birth Place Demopolis, AL
Height 6' 3"
Weight 210 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws Right/Right
College/Draft Alabama