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I’m writing about starting pitching for Rotographs and didn’t want the Pitcher List community to miss out on one of our signature GIF Breakdowns.
I love when pitchers add velocity. “Did you hear? Alex Wood is now pumping 94mph!” analysts whisper on Twitter. Crowds gather, eyes piercing a pitcher throwing a fastball that pounds a catcher’s mitt behind a failed swing. The excitement is captivating and calls for everyone’s attention as hype trains leave stations in droves.
This is the fun in fantasy baseball and Zach Eflin is the latest pitcher to get the spotlight. After failed 2016 and 2017 seasons that were so ghastly I feel guilty sharing them with you (5.54 ERA and 6.16 ERA, respectively), Eflin has had a pair of successful starts to launch his 2018 campaign, holding an impressive 0.71 ERA, 0.79 WHIP, 27.7% K rate, and 6.4% BB rate in the minuscule 12.2 IP sample. The real story, though, is how he’s bumped his four-seamer’s velocity from the previous 93.5mph mark to 95.5mph this season:
Alright, Zach Eflin has increased his fastball velocity by two ticks. So what?
Your link leads to your Cahill article
Nick,
Only stumbled on this site about a month before season opener but all I can echo is what everyone has been already saying in the comments, awesome job with this site. I’m pretty specific with the sites I trust and I go to for information and this is now one of my favorites I visit, great stuff.
A bit of a long one but I trust your advice as the main goal is to strengthen my Pitching.
I’m in a 12 team H2H cat league with balanced stats: HIT (R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG, OPS, XBH) PIT (W, CG, SV, K, GIDP, ERA, WHIP, QS)
We’re allowed a max of 3 moves per year (no streaming) and the league is pretty competitive. In the past 5 years of Regular season I’ve finished first overall each year but playoffs are another story (mix bag of finishes).
I’ve been in constant trade talks with two managers each wanting different pieces of my team. I would like to strengthen my pitching a bit and a like to trade in general.
Team 1 is offering:
My Arenado & Walker Buehler for His L. Severino, C. Morton and J. Schoop
Team 2 is offering:
My M.Haniger, C. Yelich and J. Quintana for His A. Rendon, S. Marte and J. Martinez
These are their first offers and I’m going to counter with:
Team 1 (My offer)
My Arenado, Walker Buehler, T. Anderson, M. Minor, W. Ramos for his W. Contreras, A. Judge, L. Severino, C. Morton
(the guys is in love with Arenado so I think I could convince him to add Judge here)
Team 2 (My offer)
My C. Yelich, J. Quintana, T. Mancini for his A. Rendon, S. Marte, J. Martinez
My current team below
I love Arenado as well (he’s my number one guy) but I figure I have the 3B to spare (especially if I acquire Rendon and this will beef up my Pitching, thoughts ?
C – W. Ramos
1B – P. Goldscmidt
2B – B. Dozier
3B – N. Arenado
SS – T. Turner
MI – X. Bogearts
CI – E. Suarez
LF- N. Mazara
CF – C. Blackmon
RF – M. Haniger
Util – C. Yelich
BN – T. Anderson
BN – T. Mancini
BN – Nick Senzel (NA)
DL – J. turner
SP – J. Paxton
SP – J. Verlander
SP – C. Carrasco
RP – H. Strickland
RP – M. Minor
P – J. Quintana
P – W. Buehler
BN – J. Junis
BN – M .Kopech (NA)
BN – L. Gohara
DL – D. Salazar
thanks in advance.
Marv