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Right the way THAT i 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.200 broke it up is into four. Groups so we've got 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:36.560 top flight, Stockup darling, stockup top flight stock, Down darling stock. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:37.760 Down what does that? 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.160 Mean top flight stock cup is like top ten to 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.880 fifteen pitchers in baseball that are throwing like that, again 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.160 or maybe even pushing into the top five to. Seven 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:52.600 conversation top flight stock, down top ten to fifteen pitchers 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.960 in baseball that are throwing to a six cra through 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:55.440 the first five. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.480 Starts we're gonna say what the heck is going on? 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:58.720 Here and then the. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.720 Darling are gonna be guys that many picked to be 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.200 breakouts in twenty twenty. Six, Right people that a lot 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.080 of baseball fans were really excited to watch throw over 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.160 the course of the twenty six. Season why are they 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.480 off to great starts and validating a lot of? That 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.320 why are they off to poor starts and invalidating a 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:15.600 lot of? 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.680 That is that? Fair? Like those are good definitions of Each, RIGHT. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.920 I think it's more than. Fair i'm ready to talk 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.000 about just a bunch of different, pictures whether we're, buying 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.400 whether we're. Selling it's gonna be a fun, one and 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.279 we got loads of. Pitchers it's probably not gonna be 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.000 tons of analysis for each individual, guy but we are 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.840 going to cover what fifteen to twenty starting pitchers on this. 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:36.839 List it's gonna be. Fun. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.560 Yeah SO i figure one guy kind of deserves his 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.120 own timestamp and section here because this is a mix 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.560 of top flight and. Darling because What Jose soriano has 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.520 done through his first five starts with The La. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.919 Angels so far this year is like this. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.840 Beautiful hybrid of like top flight and darling at the same. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:01.120 Time through six. Starts pardon For jose Sp, yiano thirty 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.239 seven and two thirds, innings eighteen hits against, him one 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.520 run it came in a solo home. Run he is 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.200 five and oh through his front six. Starts he's punched 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.400 out forty three and walked. Thirteen this, guy HIS zra. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.279 PLUS i love That peyton has this. Yere HIS zra 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.600 plus is eighteen thirty. Five, remember one hundred is league. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.000 Average his zero point two to FOUR era is one, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.560 thousand eight hundred and thirty. Five the fewest amount of 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.800 runs allowed in a starting pitcher's first six starts to 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.320 begin a season minimum thirty. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:34.359 Innings thank you To Peyton. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.680 Genis Jose soriano has allowed one run in thirty seven 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:42.360 and two thirds. Innings Fernando, Mania Fernando valezuela in nineteen eighty, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.720 one fifty four innings of, work two runs, Allowed Walter 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.800 johnson The Big train fifty one innings and two runs 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.279 allowed in nineteen, thirteen and then the one guy that 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.240 kind of invalidates the list sort of kind Of Steven 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.719 taveros in nineteen ninety four thirty four innings pitched and 0:05:58.839 --> 0:05:59.640 two runs. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.880 Alive this is elite. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.839 Company and if it was Just, Soriano Fernando vealezuela And Walter, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.200 johnson we're talking about the Next hall Of. Famer that 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.400 was A rule five pick in return by The Pittsburgh 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.400 pirates in twenty twenty one And Jose. Soriano But i'm 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.680 gonna let you like a wax poetic About soriano right, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.320 now and Then i'll get into why some of this is, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.800 valid why some of this is. Invalid so first of, 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.039 all that graphic is, absurd and it puts into perspective 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.800 what we're watching here With Jose, soriano when you're on 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:36.279 a list With Fernando, mania which is still remembered forty years, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.520 later And Walter, johnson WHO i think leads all starting 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:45.360 pitchers career wise in war, right if YOU i understand, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.920 right they were throwing the plumbers or. Whatever and that's 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.120 going to be the critique of A Walter. JOHNSON i 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.719 respect the old. Guys so to be on a list 0:06:54.080 --> 0:07:00.680 With johnson And Fernando valezuela. Unbelievable But Jose Soriano PODCAST 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.839 p AND i were talking pre record actually yesterday and 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.479 basically what we were talking about, was this is a 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:13.840 right handed Fromber valdez with better stuff because he has 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.560 that patented knuckle curveball or the curveball That fromber. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:23.640 THROWS. Mh soriano's comes in. Harder fromber always sat in 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.960 the load of mid nineties with his, sinker get a 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.680 ton of movement on. It Jose soriano throws his sinker. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.360 Harder he actually has a more diverse pitch mix Than fromber. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.400 Did and what Is fromber the king of getting in 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:43.640 a rhythm and getting ground? Balls Jose soriano he strikes 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.640 out more batters Than fromber. Did he gets a similar 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.720 rate of ground balls fifty eight point eight percent this 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.160 year and he's routinely been in the high fifties even last. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:59.280 Year this is right Handed fromberveldez with better. Stuff right, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.720 Now that's what we're, watching and When fromberg is at 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.440 his most, dominant when he's locating everything that he, wants 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.600 we see abbreviated stretches of, this but this stretch is 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.920 taken to a new height because the stuff is simply. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.280 Better and when he's just in the, zone even if 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.920 they hit the ball hard jack it's on the, ground 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.480 The angels defenders are gobbling it. Up it's as impressive 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.720 of a pitcher as we have In Major league, baseball 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.800 no doubt about. It he started the year at sixty 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.080 six hundred to win The American League Czy. Young he 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.080 is now plus eight hundred on BET mgm that type 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.520 of steam and it is one hundred percent. Warranted he 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.320 looks like one of the best pitchers in. Baseball and 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:53.160 you see right increase in split, usage increase in four seam. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.079 Usage it's a more diverse pitch. Mix it's not just 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.319 the sinker and knuckle curve a lot of what we've 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.920 seen from from sure this is so. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:07.360 Impressive so the diversified pitch mix is really important, here 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.360 and that could be leaning into why this is. Valid 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.760 he's figuring out the best way to attack. Hitters and 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.040 it's very similar the sinker and four seam usage to 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.480 another elite ground ball guy In Major league, baseball Because 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.960 Jose soriano over the last couple of years has been 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.240 one of the elite ground ball, guys maybe the best 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.680 ground ball guy In Major League, Baseball soriano one hundred 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.400 and thirteen innings in twenty twenty. Four world Ground balls 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.000 had a sixty percent clip last year one hundred and seventy. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.280 Innings world Ground balls had a sixty four and a 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.120 half percent. Clip this year at a fifty seven percent, 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.600 Clip so he's up there With. Fromber i'm going to 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.760 make the comparison to logan web and the four seam 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:43.880 implementation last. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.840 Year what did we talk about at. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.959 The beginning of the year with logan web in twenty twenty, 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.280 Five he found a wif. Pitch he found the four 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.760 seamer up, Top, like it's not just a show. Pitch 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.240 it is a two strike pitch to get guys off 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.839 of that ground ball cadence where it's going to be 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.760 syncer at the, knees, curveball the, knees sinker at the 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.040 knees snkre at the knees fastball up is a different. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.320 Pitch and is that the one that has been tagged 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.080 for the only two extra base hits so far Against Jose. Soriano, 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.720 yes but at the end of the, day it's something 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.760 to adjust. Sights soriano is someone that Works East west a, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.520 lot but he also has This North south game and 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.200 the four seam is a huge part of A North south. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.240 Game so it's not like anything changed in terms of urm. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.640 Angle it's not like really anything changed in terms of 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.400 the shape of. Pitches the sinker is about a mile 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.079 an hour, slower which might allow it to actually get 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.400 a little bit down and more bowling. Ballish instead of 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.800 ninety seven it's ninety. Six but at the end of the, 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:42.320 day it's just another option and another thing for hitters 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.559 to think, about and the more you can push hitters 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.200 to their, heels the better a pitcher will. Be Jose 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.920 soriano his last five starts have been. Immaculate april twenty, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.280 second last time out against The Toronto Blue, jays five scoreless. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.160 Innings that was On, wednesday with four ks and no. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.360 Walks but before, That april seventeenth against The padres five 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.680 and two, thirds two, hits no, runs punched out, eight 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.199 did walk. Four before, that he walked three In, cincinnati 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.920 but it was seven scoreless with ten k's eight, innings 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.080 a one run ball Against atlanta with ten k's and no, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.960 walks and before that At Wrigley, field six scoreless innings 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.319 two hits and four ks with two. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:18.760 Walks the other thing. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.560 About soriano to mention is That Jose soriano is a 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.000 guy that is going to need to walk a couple 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.760 of people over the course of a given. Start LIKE i, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.120 understand the ten k's and no walks looks, good and 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.720 the five k's and no walks looks, good but he 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.600 does benefit a little bit from being effectively, wild and 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.560 that is another tactic to keep hitters on their heels against. 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.319 Him SO i do think there is a nice element 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.400 to the walk issue For Jose. Soriano i'm not saying 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.600 he needs to walk Five i'm just, saying like two 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.000 walks each start is not the end of the world 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.280 for a guy Like. Soriano it's far more palatable than 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.080 a guy Like Blake. Snell BUT i mean it's it's 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.560 a weapon for him in a certain. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.800 Sense what's the ultimate hedged to when you're walking betters 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.439 the first pitch ground ball double, Play, yeah and that's 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.120 What Jose. Soriano he just gets that sinker back into 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.679 the zone after a, walk and those two outs can 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.679 be a race just like. That SO i agree with, You, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.600 like it's not a bad. Thing if he's being effectively 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.960 wild and he walks two guys per, start, Right Dylan 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.760 cees is. Dominating right, now we're going to talk about. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.719 Him he's walking four and a half per, nine the 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.640 effectively wild, part and he's also rocking a fifty five 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.560 percent ground ball. Rate so that ability to get out 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.280 of an inning with a double, play hopefully on the 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.920 first or second pitch of the ab can keep that 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.480 pitch count down and then allow you to continue to eat. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.040 Innings BECAUSE i think equally as Impressive soriano with the 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.440 strikeouts and the ground ball rate and the stuff is 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.800 his ability to go deep in, games saving That angel's. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.880 Bullpen so everything is coming Up Jose, soriano no doubt about. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:59.400 It so the zero point two four era is probably, unsustainable. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.160 Folks what could be sustainable as A Cy young race 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:04.640 till the very end in The American. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:05.960 League So Peter, apple yes or. 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.600 No Jose soriano finishes top three in Al Cy young voting. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:09.959 This, Year. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:21.960 So top of brain goes To schooble, Clearly, okay second to. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:28.120 Me right now we're gonna talk about, Him Dylan, cease, okay, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.080 Three i'm trying to decide Between soriano And Cam schlitler 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.880 Or Max. FRIED i think all of those, guys BECAUSE 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.520 i Think freed and we'll talk about him in a. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.040 Second there is an intent to eat innings, there SO 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.199 i think he could be like two two hundred and 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.040 twenty innings could see. That I'm i'm gonna say there's 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:50.480 too many irons in the fire for me to stamp. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.360 That i'm going to sell. It BUT i don't feel 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:55.800 good about it at. All he. 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.400 EASILY i. Don't, YEAH i don't feel good about it. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.000 EITHER i do think that he fishes outside the top, 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.840 three but it is an amazing start and we just 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.600 have to revel in, it and we have to each 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.000 time he toes the rubber moving, forward make it must 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.360 watch television until you know the blow up start, happens 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.440 and it could and it, might and it might happen 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:15.800 next time. Out but at the end of the, day 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.520 What Jose soriano is doing has literally never been done. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.720 Before he is MAKING mlb history each time he toes 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.240 the rubber for The La, angels And Mike trout has 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.000 eight or nine home runs and zac nedo'sops is over 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.240 eight hundred vibes are high In. Anaheim right, Now that's 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.720 All i'm going to say on that. Front, absolutely let's 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.280 take us to the top flight stock up guys. Again 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.240 these are top ten to fifteen pitchers in baseball that 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.840 are absolutely looking the, part AND i just wanted to 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.600 highlight their strong starts of the. Year and we've got 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:47.880 a whole bunch of guys that we can go. To 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.240 i'm actually going to go to someone that flies under 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.920 the radar per se in this clumping of guys at the. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.160 Outset BUT i think it's pertinent BECAUSE i just brought 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.640 up the point of the two fastballs For Jose. Soriano 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.480 Brian wu has entered this new frontier because of the two. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.640 Fastballs he's a four seam and sinker, guy And, wu 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.480 through five starts thirty two, innings pitch at a two 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:08.200 point twenty five. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.320 Ra what he does is. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.560 CLINICAL i, mean you know exactly what you're getting From 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.240 Brian wu each time. Out and it's interesting because what 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.840 first deason of him in twenty twenty, four we were 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.320 talking about this guy being a little bit, fragile and 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.000 it felt like he was day to day on a 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.320 couple of occasions with injuries and how is he going 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.840 to eat? Innings he shut us up real quick with 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.400 one hundred and eighty seven innings last year to sub THREE. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.760 Erra he's hunting three straight years with a sub THREE, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.520 era and he's off to a heck of a. Start 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.400 in thirty two. Innings he's only punching out twenty, six 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.840 but he's only walked six guys in one hundred and 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.640 twenty three batters, faced and opponents are hitting a buck 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:48.840 ninety five against. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.880 Him what have you taken away From Brian wu's start 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:51.000 of the? 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.880 Year number, ONE i don't think he looks that great 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.880 and he's still putting up a two two FIVE rara, 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.680 Sure AND i think it's you can see that in 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.560 this vant, profile. Right the hard hit rate is up 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.640 a little, Bit he's not getting as many ground balls 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.240 as he used. To the swing and miss isn't quite. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:12.760 There BUT i also feel Like i'm watching a pitcher 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.120 who knows. Himself and WHAT i mean by that is 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.880 he HAS i mean he has to have this uber 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.680 confidence in that forcing. Fastball he was already a forcing 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.880 fastball dominant, pitcher but that usage has continued to climb this, 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.840 year AND i think he's almost testing the limits of 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.120 how many just four seemers CAN i throw Where i'm 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:37.960 painting the corners Or i'm throwing it up in the, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.960 Zone and CAN i continue to eat innings to get 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.560 through Outings and then maybe further on in the year 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.640 he starts mixing in other, Pitches but right now it's 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.520 really those two variations of. Fastballs, now that's kind of 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.320 always been his, mo but this year it just feels 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.800 like he's taken that to new. Heights and with a 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:03.520 guy Like Brian wou knowing himself and knowing how he 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.280 can eat through innings throughout a, SEASON i think right 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.080 now he's just testing those. Boundaries so the numbers don't look, 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.639 great BUT i think it's a testament to his talent 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.679 that he could pitch to a two two five era 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.400 while just basically Saying i'm gonna throw fastballs In april 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.720 and then we'll start kind of working on everything. ELSE 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.440 i dare you to hit. It they ain't two two five. 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.960 Era it's so impressive the. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.680 Numbers you say the numbers don't look, great you're talking 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.440 about the, peripherals because the numbers themselves actually look pretty darn. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.240 Great last five starts six, innings a two run, ball 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.600 seven innings of one, hit shutout, ball five, innings one earned, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.679 run seven, innings three, runs seven, innings two. Runs so 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.800 this guy is always eating, innings Mister Bryan. Woo and 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.320 he's seventy five percent fastball, man he's fifty percent four, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.159 seeing twenty five percent. Sinker he was seventy five percent 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.879 fastball last year. Too to your, point he's pushing the. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.760 Limits how many fastballs CAN i throw without getting? 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:58.639 Beaten and it's just. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.280 HAPPENING i think he's running a science, experiment and he's 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.320 more just collectic. Data he was, like my roseball looked, 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.760 great But i'm. Producing let's see how far we could 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.960 take this. Now of, course guys are just gonna only 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.760 be sitting, fastball BUT i have to imagine they're pretty 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.280 much doing that. Now and the AVERAGE exi velocity against 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.600 it is still under ninety miles an. Hour when you 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:22.920 know one out of every two pitches you're getting is 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.280 a forcing, fastball that's how damn good the forcing fastball. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.199 Is and that's why as soon as he came up 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.239 and started, dominating we rushed to, him because we, said all, 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.880 right your main pitch is going to be this, good 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.320 and you can locate it this, well and you can 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.399 repeat your mechanics and you have such a smooth, delivery 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.920 you're gonna. Perform and that's exactly what he's. 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.399 Done really solid bounce back start From Max freed In 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:46.280 boston On. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:47.560 Thursday AND i want to talk. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.280 About freed, next Because freed was coming off of a 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.199 start against The La angels where he went five and 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.760 a third of five earned run. Baseball he surrendered a home, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.240 run he walked, three he only caved. Three but he 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.920 goes eight scoreless with three hits allowed and nine punchouts 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:02.439 in a four to one winner of The Red sox 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.800 On wednesday. Night freed is looking like a front line. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.720 Starter and, Yes New york is getting called, Back Yes 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.160 New york is Getting rodin, Back Yes schlitler is throwing 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:16.080 to a sub to era right. Now But freed does 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.480 he not give you the most comfort every single time 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:19.359 he tows the rubber for The. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.840 YANKEES i will say it does look like a slightly 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.360 different version Of Max freed this year BECAUSE i don't 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.879 know if people have, noticed but a strikeout rate is, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.439 down and now he still has the pitches to go 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.840 get a strike out when he needs. To BUT i 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:39.280 think that there is intent. Here AND i already said this, 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.760 earlier BUT i really believe this to eat a bunch of. 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.760 Innings forty one innings leads Major League baseball so. Far 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.679 he's in the zone, consistently but it almost feels like 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:57.000 When i'm watching him inning by, inning he's not really 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.040 trying to paint the corners quite as. Much he's just 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:06.120 going after, hitters and hitters simply aren't able to make 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.400 hard contact against, him so his pitch count stays low 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.200 throughout the, game and maybe a couple of runs get 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.720 scattered here and, there but then we're in the seventh 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.359 or the eighth. Inning Like Max freed has pitched into 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.360 the sixth inning in every single. Start the only time 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.080 he didn't pitch into the seventh inning was that game 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.240 against The. Angels and in that game against The, angels it, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.359 says you, know five earned. Runs four of those earned 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.199 runs came in the sixth inning where he was. WORKING 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.640 i look At Max. Freed i've watched every single, start 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:38.720 in every single inning this, year he's had one bad. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:43.959 Inning like this version Of Max, freed he already got his, money, 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:49.920 Right he doesn't need to light up the fanggraft stuff plus. 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.320 Models he doesn't need to put up this gouty strikeout 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.800 rate in order to impress the nerdy gms in baseball 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:58.800 who are gonna give him a two hundred million dollars. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:03.160 Contract he already his huge. Contract so this version Of Max, 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.679 freed While Garrett cole is, injured While Carlos rodonner is, 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.639 injured While Clark schmidt is, injured and they're basically kind 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.240 of running a four man, rotation even Though Luis heel 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:14.880 has kind of become that five and he did look 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.280