Rich DeLucia  
Relief Pitcher | Retired or Inactive Players

Pitching
DeLucia has to keep the ball down, especially against lefties, or he gets hit hard and often. His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. The Retired or Inactive Players hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. But DeLucia, do us a favor. Stop throwing that changeup. It looks like a beachball. He's trying to develop a sinker, but as of yet it's been well below par. He comes right after righthanded hitters, who are lucky even to reach base against him, but he works more carefully to lefties.

Defense & Hitting
He's reasonably quick to the plate but needs to vary his pickoff moves. Good baserunners appeared to time him last year. DeLucia is nothing special in the field. DeLucia is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but DeLucia has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Retired or Inactive Players have been known to use DeLucia as a pinch-runner on occasion.

2010 Outlook
If DeLucia doesn't perform, the Retired or Inactive Players won't hesitate to send him down to the minors. I just don't know if The Retired or Inactive Players are ever going to get what they expect out of him.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
1998 CHC 78 50 53 65 57 41 52 49 47 62 29 29 0 50 0 0 32 8 Overhand Active 0 8 25 47 287
1999 CHC 78 50 53 65 57 41 52 49 47 63 29 29 0 50 0 0 33 9 Overhand Active 0 0 0 48 288
2000 CHC 82 50 53 64 57 41 52 49 47 63 29 29 0 50 0 0 34 10 Overhand Active 0 0 0 48 293
2001 CHC 84 50 53 50 57 41 52 49 47 64 29 29 0 50 0 0 35 11 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 42 284
2002 FA 84 49 53 44 57 41 52 49 47 65 29 29 0 50 0 0 36 12 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 35 278
2003 FA 84 48 51 44 57 41 52 49 47 65 29 29 0 50 0 0 37 13 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 33 273
Ratings Delta     -1 -2                           +1 +1           -2 -5
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Sun Nov 14 13:28:08 EST 2004

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.