In a pitching department that has prioritized two things — strikes and sinkers — Snell is a novel subject.
Blake Snell #4 of the San Diego Padres pitches against the San Francisco Giants in the fifth inning on June 22, 2023 in San Francisco, California. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Stashed away somewhere in his parents’ house, Kyle Harrison has a keepsake it might be time to unearth.
It’s not hard to see the similarities between Snell, 31, and Harrison, 23. Just as easily as they pitch themselves into trouble, they have proven — Snell in the majors and Harrison on his pathway there — to be able to pitch themselves out of it. The heaters coming out of their left arms are so electric, their breaking balls so bendy, that it seems sometimes like even they don’t know where it is going.
Snell’s 2.25 ERA led the NL, the first pitcher to ever lead a league in both categories. He stranded 86.7% of the runners he put on base, six percentage points better than the next-closest pitcher, Gerrit Cole, the Cy Young winner in the American League. “The first year he came up we always talked about working deep into games. He knows that’s something he wants to do. The stuff that he has creates a lot of pitches.”
“Me and Webby throw sinkers and try to be down in the zone and that results in ground balls. Theirs results in foul balls,” Cobb said. “It raises the pitch count up. And he’s aware of that. He’s found ways to obviously overcome that and be the best pitcher in baseball.” Last season, Snell relied less on the fastball-slider combination that had been his bread-and-butter, incorporating his changeup and curveball more, which had the effect of mimicking his pitch mix from his 2018 Cy Young season.SF Giants’ split with announcer Brooks-Moon sparks outrage from Bay Area observers
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