Only thing worse than watching Bucknor is listening to Rex Hudler on the Royals' feed.CB Bucknor is such an inconsistent, incompetent umpire.
Usually with hitters, you pretty much know what you have after a couple of seasons. With pitchers, every now and then you see a guy who has struggled find a period of success. Morton is an example of that. Best example (at least for me) is Mke Scott, who pitched for the Met and stunk and won the Cy Young for the Astros. Rumored scuffing was reportedly involved.A Charlie Morton-career arc would be handy right about now for Wentz.
I forgot that Wentz had committed to UVA out of high school, until the Braves drafted him.![]()
Not very good at Baseball Savant. Really hard to tell today. He really pitched well early but he was clearly running out of gas. Statcast had him hitting 94 a couple of times, but he was pitching backwards for most of the game.How does wentz's stuff rate?
Hard to tell since their percentile rankings do not differentiate between his time before Atlanta and what he's doing now.How does wentz's stuff rate?
you can look at the game log on savant and see what his stuff and it compares today versus yearly avg.. nothing is really different today than it has been all year. MPH is within 1 on his yearly avg.. the breaks are all with 1 to 2 on his yearly avg. Only thing that jumps out at me today, is that he used his cutter a good bit more than his 4seam and had a good mix of curves. I think he just located really well and as long as he can do that he will be fine.. but no one should have dreams of him ever being an ace. He is basically Elder when Elder didn't completely sucked.Hard to tell since their percentile rankings do not differentiate between his time before Atlanta and what he's doing now.
But the FIP, xFIP, and SIERA seem to match up with his actual results.