Both pitchers consistently pump gas up toward the top of the zone and challenge batters to catch up. And the fastballs are crushing hitters’ spirits by … riding high. Bendy, knee-buckling secondary pitches get all the love, but if your fastball can function as a weapon on its own, you have a serious leg up.Ĭease and Rodon, now a member of the San Francisco Giants, are riding high on fastballs right now. Carlos Rodon’s four-seam fastballįollowing in Burnes footsteps? It’s possible these former Chicago White Sox teammates could ride unhittable fastballs into Cy Young contention in 2022. Now he’s throwing it even more - 57% of the time - and the league is batting a whopping. It just became his primary pitch for the first time last season. The pitch has been a centerpiece of his repertoire for a long time - especially since 2019 - but is on another level this year.Ĭorbin Burnes, filthy painted cutter on the corner of the zone 🎨🔥 /C8s2ZmljYJ One of the biggest reasons he’s been able to pull that off is a diabolical splitter. Pretty good plan! Should stick with that! If you’ve been following Gausman’s superb start, the thing you probably know is that he has yet to walk anyone or allow a home run through five starts and 31 2/3 innings. The Toronto Blue Jays lured Gausman away from San Francisco this offseason to replace AL Cy Young winner Robbie Ray and so far that is looking brilliant. Starting pitchers have thrown their best offerings more than 100 times now, plenty of time to assess the nastiest and most important thus far in 2022. What we can already identify are breathtaking, jaw-dropping, involuntary-gasp-inducing pitches. We don’t know who is actually good or how the season is going to go, generally. Among them: Whether hyped rookies are good, whether the Mets and Angels actually have it figured out this time, whether scoring is going to hit an all-time low. There are a lot of things we just don’t know one month into the MLB season.
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