One thing to note right away is that Owings has a very straight fastball and his change up isn’t moving much more. That usually isn’t a very good thing. Its worth noting that Owings was throwing a ‘cut fastball’ , which is all of the ones that are barely moving, and a 4 seam fastball that makes up most of the ones with 5 or more inches of movement. Here is how his velocity looked:

Owings topped out at 88.7 MPH last night and worked for the most part in the 86-88 MPH range. Given the lack of movement his fastball gets and the mid to upper 80’s velocity, I am a little worried about what may happen moving forward if one or both don’t improve. Here is the pitch selection:

Owings worked off of his fastball for the most part, throwing a cutter, 4 and 2 seam fastball. One other things that must improve is his ability to throw all of his pitches for strikes more often. Last night, it didn’t look all that good.

As you can see, Owings really struggled to throw his pitches for strikes all night and it didn’t really matter what he was going to throw, the odds weren’t good that it was going to find the strikezone. Check out the pitch location’s for the different pitches:

His fastball was in the upper part of the zone for the most part on the night, while his off speed pitches were down in the zone. Here is what the results looked like on those pitches:

The end results looked fine in the box score, but by looking through all of this data, I have some concerns going forward with Owings.