last week instead of driving across state, he pitched in a backfields game. he's pitching today, so he should have 2 more spring starts and then make his regular season debut on a couple of extra days rest.
I have to overlay one on top of the other in Photoshop and then lower the opacity of the older one.
Bello's start today on top of his pitches from last Sept-Oct. His curveball was much more distinctive than in his early appearances in camp when it was blending with last year's breaking ball. Looks like possibly a very good pitch.
I didn't dig, but at initial glance, he was not afraid to just lay sinkers over the plate, and then they swung at junk out of the zone.
However, some of the pitch shapes look different than at the end of last year, so I need to look further.
Whitlock's stuff tonight for Team USA was bang on what it was last September.
I think Oviedo looked good today, but kind of weird; here are his pitches from the end of last year, with clear clusters, and this afternoon. The characteristics of his fastballs seem all over the place.
3.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K
Noah Song has the highest whiff rate for any Red Sox pitcher this spring, at 41%.
He seems to have cut out his curve and is heavily spamming what seems to be a very good slider to go along with an unremarkable 93-96 mph fastball.
33 sliders (60% whiff), 13 fastballs (17% whiff), 3 chanegups
who knows what his sprint speed will look like when it starts being tracked, but apparently he was at basically sprint camp all winter.
Besides acknowledging that he hasn't come out of the gate smashing that ball... I don't think there is much to take from it at all.
Fouling off too many pitches that should be in play.
The micromanaging of Mayer this spring hasn't bothered him to start. He has driven 4 of 6 batted balls in the air so far, with 2 BB and 1 K, along with clearly being the best infield defender.
i'd presume so. also i'd presume this doesn't happen. however, there was once a lot of smoke, then it went away, and now there is at least some smoke again. So we'll see.
I presume there is like a 90% chance Wong is the backup catcher on opening day
I have no idea. I don't really understand all the talk surrounding him the last week. I don't think what Cora said about him earning a job was a slight. As far as I know, he is well liked by the front office and coaching staff.
This wasn’t a guess.
Rosenthal wrote today the Astros and Red Sox “have not been in recent contact” … and then goes on to lay out an exact scenario that popped back up out of nowhere the last few days behind the scenes 🤔🧐
www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...
19 year old and 61 days
They can’t make an ideal lineup because of their collection of potions players. It’s why a RH top tier hitter was needed.
So far Wilyer has swung at only 4 of 41 pitches out the strike zone this spring; he is human ABS system
Narvaez 6'0" -> 5'11"
Contreras 6'1" -> 6'0"
Durbin 5'7" -> 5'6"
Duran 6'1" -> 6'0"
Gasper 5'10" -> 5'9"
Seigler 5'10" -> 5'9"
Ehrhard 5'10" -> 5'9"
Liendo 5'8" -> 5'7"
Hickey 6'0" -> 5'11"
Romero 6'0" -> 5'11"
Godbout 6'2" -> 6'0"
Gonzales 6'4" -> 6'5"
Taylor 5'11" -> 6'0"
Connelly Early had reached 96.5 in AAA statcast and 96.6 in MLB statcast before today, when he hit 97.1
I’m probably on an island here, but watching spring training games, the ABS system is so incredibly dumb. Just use the technology to call every ball and strike correctly.
Besides a dramatic change in “stuff” from a pitcher, not much into getting up or down about any spring performance. So far, my only mental note is that Tolle’s command may not have been a winter fix, and we may be on a longer development path with him even though he rocketed through the system.
He'll be in High-A Greenville this year
The two hardest hitters in the AL East
They didn't track pitches correctly before this year.
None of this is meaningful anyways, just funny, baseball reference says the average level of his pitchers faced in spring training the last 3 years is Double-A.
Rafaela's combined spring training stats from 2024-26 pro-rated to 650 plate appearances: 52 2B, 31 HR, 121 RBI, 42 SB, 52 BB, 105 K
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Maybe a dumb question, but do you know why gamefeed has these mirrored compared to other parts of the site?
Jake Bennett (Luis Perales trade) hitting 97.6 mph this afternoon
