08-17-2019, 07:41 PM
(08-17-2019, 12:32 PM)McC Wrote: His style of pitching is catching up to him. He throws way too many pitches and he relies on guys swinging at bad pitches. If guys don't swing at pitches out of the zone, he struggles.
It takes a good game plan to beat him, but if you have that plan and have the discipline to execute it, he is beatable. If you look at the games he's lost, it's been the same blueprint.
He needs to spend the off season making adjustments. He has to find a way to get guys out while throwing strikes.
Exactly
The throwing 2/3 of his pitches outside the strike zone worked for him late last season and 1st half this year. And make no mistake he has the stuff to be at the least a very good pitcher.
Teams are on to him now, they've figured out he's out of the zone, a lot. He has to unlearn the style he's pitching now and understand he has to be in the zone a good bit more.
The pitching coach should be able to help him a lot, he seems like a good one.
