GDT 9/3 vs Cubs

Maples has thrown Swanson 5 straight sliders. He might be about to be tested with 25%+ sliders soon.

Luckily Maples couldn't locate at all
 
Dansby's average is up more than 30 points since coming back up and his .OBP is .318. I know that's not "good," but if that's not progress, I don't know what is.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
Dansby's average is up more than 30 points since coming back up and his .OBP is .318. I know that's not "good," but if that's not progress, I don't know what is.
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To me the biggest thing is his K% is down below 14% now since coming back up. If Dansby can live in that range (aka not getting ate up by sliders) he's going to be a good hitter.
 
Enshceff- I know you keep saying Frieds FB has little movement. I'm under the impression it has below average horizontal movement but has good verticle movement- does statcast reflect that?
 
Enscheff said:
We only have data on Zito's curve from 2007 and later when he was already 29, but his curve had 11 inches of drop, and in later years lost an inch of drop and added 4+ inches of horizontal movement.

It stands to reason a younger Zito threw it a bit harder and may have had more movement.

If Zito's was a 75/80, and Newk's is a 60, Fried's is a 65.
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Zito had 5 pitches if I'm not mistaken too although he didn't use them all a lot as his curve was definetely his out pitch...and I'm by no means saying Fried is Hamels but they have similar build and mechanics...Hamels also had a weak changeup when he came into the league that he definetely worked on
 
Best news is all the crap relievers threw a ton of pitches Saturday, so they don't figure to muck this up.
 
rico43 said:
Best news is all the crap relievers threw a ton of pitches Saturday, so they don't figure to muck this up.
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I wouldn't count on it just yet...Freeman didn't pitch long though and Ramirez and Viz didn't pitch I believe either...

Nice inning for Minter
 
steveAKAslick said:
Zito had 5 pitches if I'm not mistaken too although he didn't use them all a lot as his curve was definetely his out pitch...and I'm by no means saying Fried is Hamels but they have similar build and mechanics...Hamels also had a weak changeup when he came into the league that he definetely worked on
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Hamels had a good change with good fade. He was mainly a FB/CH guy with his curve not being very good. He also averaged 92 on his fastball when 92 meant something 10 years ago, and that fastball had excellent 4 seam rise (12+ inches).

That's why he never had much of a platoon advantage vs LHers.

I don't think Fried is simlar to Hamels at all.
 
Winkler, Morris, Minter, Viz, Ramirez, Lindgren, Freeman, Biddle (is he on DL or what?) isn't a bad start for the BP at all imo
 
Oklahomabrave said:
Enshceff- I know you keep saying Frieds FB has little movement. I'm under the impression it has below average horizontal movement but has good verticle movement- does statcast reflect that?
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Here are average movement for LHed SPs.

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/the-change-average-movement-for-each-pitch-type/

Fried's has 4.2 inches of fade and 7.1 inches of rise on his fastball. It is neither a sinker nor a riser, it's right in between. It doesn't have much fade. It is very straight, and a below average pitch even at 93. At 90 it is almost unusable.
 
Enscheff said:
Here are average movement for LHed SPs.

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/the-change-average-movement-for-each-pitch-type/

Fried's has 4.2 inches of fade and 7.1 inches of rise on his fastball. It is neither a sinker nor a riser, it's right in between. It doesn't have much fade. It is very straight, and a below average pitch even at 93. At 90 it is almost unusable.
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Love the Statcast info but for whatever reason I think he's holding back on his FB, may not change his movement whatsoever though...was reading that he throws his curve with two different grips, one that ends up resembling a slurve...that may have been the "weird pitch" you referred to earlier in the thread
 
steveAKAslick said:
Love the Statcast info but for whatever reason I think he's holding back on his FB, may not change his movement whatsoever though...was reading that he throws his curve with two different grips, one that ends up resembling a slurve...that may have been the "weird pitch" you referred to earlier in the thread
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Could be. That pitch needs to go away. It is not good.

I highly doubt Fried is holding back. Averaging 93.3 out of the BP is likely the best we could optimistically hope for as a SP.
 
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