Pitching Style
Padilla has a wide variety of pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a sinker, a slider, a changeup, and an eephus pitch. The fastball is his main pitch: it tends to reach speeds of about 92-94 mph. However, he is also one of the few pitchers in baseball to throw an eephus pitch, a slow curve that travels about 55 mph. Padilla rarely throws this pitch consecutively, though. He has never led his league in walks, but tends to hit a lot of batters: his total of 106 hit batters (HB) is tied for 67th all-time, and he led the American League in hit batters in 2006.
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