GDT 5/3/17: Braves vs. Mets
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Braves1976
It's OVER 5,000!
Yep, now you'd get nothing for him aside from maybe a bullpen arm.
NinersSBChamps
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br> 2015 (Co-Winner)</BR>20
Is Wisler still not getting a great deal of swings and misses? Something about pitching to contact would get him lit up. Ho hum.
JxnMissFan
Gwinnett Bound
Pitching to contact isn't really a bad thing but offering batters the chance to put belt high middle of the plate pitches in play is a disaster waiting to happen.
AerchAngel
<B>Secretary of Statistics</B>
Well good news is that you won't see many 2-0 or 3-2 games when the Braves play, especially at home.
Bring on the late 1970's staff and the early 2000's bats.
Bring on the late 1970's staff and the early 2000's bats.
GovClintonTyree
<B>Vencer a Los Doyers</B>
Wisler's fastball is plenty good, 93-94, and he's hit his spots in the past. He's got to develop something that gets them off his fastball, probably the change, and then have the guts to throw it in fastball counts. Not a curveball/slider, he's got an excellent slider. But a straight change, or maybe a splitter.
Lil Guv is at the age now where he needs something else, but he has never gotten the deception of the change, at least not consistently. He was screwing around with a splitter in a bullpen and threw five in a row that sunk like a stone 20 feet from the plate. He's using that as a change of sorts, and it's working. Makes his very-good-but-not-Scherzerian fastball look explosive.
Then Wisler can throw the fastball with a little more confidence, and I think the whole thing would come together for him. I still like him. It's hard to spin a ball the way he does that slider. That's a pitch you build around. And I think his fastball's good, too.
The guy needs a change or a change substitute. You might as well send him down and let him work with your best pitching coach, whether that's in Florida, Gwinnett or Rome. He's useless until he figures this out. But if he does, he can still be really good.
Lil Guv is at the age now where he needs something else, but he has never gotten the deception of the change, at least not consistently. He was screwing around with a splitter in a bullpen and threw five in a row that sunk like a stone 20 feet from the plate. He's using that as a change of sorts, and it's working. Makes his very-good-but-not-Scherzerian fastball look explosive.
Then Wisler can throw the fastball with a little more confidence, and I think the whole thing would come together for him. I still like him. It's hard to spin a ball the way he does that slider. That's a pitch you build around. And I think his fastball's good, too.
The guy needs a change or a change substitute. You might as well send him down and let him work with your best pitching coach, whether that's in Florida, Gwinnett or Rome. He's useless until he figures this out. But if he does, he can still be really good.
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
Agree. If one is going to be a pitch-to-contact guy, the ball has to be kept on the ground. Wisler is a fly ball pitcher and the results of not having a solid "out" pitch or a plus-plus fastball are pretty evident.
NinersSBChamps
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br> 2015 (Co-Winner)</BR>20
His fastball is straight as an arrow. He sits low to mid 90s and a fastball with little to no movement at speed isn't any good at all.