The signs of an Orion Kerkering breakout are there. Check out his strikeout percentage over the last two weeks.
Updates, additions, and clarifications for the record as the Phillies keep cruising and the Eagles break for summer.
There’s some tantalizing evidence that Orion Kerkering is in the early stages of his long-awaited breakout ...The pitcher we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks looks a lot like the closer-in-waiting the Phillies envisioned at the start of the season. Not that there was anything wrong with him before that. With a 1.19 ERA and five holds in 21 appearances, the bottom-line results have been there all season. But the gaudy strikeout numbers were conspicuously absent.
Nothing has changed with Kerkering’s stuff. The big difference is his command, particularly with his fastball, a pitch that has a tendency to fly away from him. In his last five outings, Kerkering has done a much better job at getting his fastball down in and below the zone. Of the 44 fastballs he has thrown, only six have been high and out of the zone, according to. Compare that to his first month-and-a-half, when 20% of his fastballs were high balls.
In Kerkering’s first 16 appearances, he threw just 10 fastballs in the lower third of the strike zone. In his last five appearances, he has thrown nine such pitches.That’s a big step forward, and a big reason why his K rate has jumped. Kerkering’s fastball is less important for him than it is for most other high-leverage arms. But he needs to be able to call on it with confidence and consistency in order to keep hitters off his devastating sweeper.
“There’s a lot of players that physically are capable of being versatile,” Fangio said. “Where a lot of them get eliminated from being versatile is they struggle to learn the assignments and the techniques and the execution at a couple different positions. There’s a lot of guys that are versatile physically, but can’t do it mentally. They’re not going to get — your reps are watered down the more you’re moving around.
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