Zack Godley Made a Change and it Appears to be Working

Zack Godley has had a rough year. There have been many, many calls to move him to the bullpen after his rough start to the season. His velocity is down from last year. He’s looked really wild at times and was roughed up hard by the Brewers and Giants.

Yet, he’s slowly but surely started to turn things around. I am generally not a big advocate of taking small(ish) samples and breaking down into smaller samples but sometimes this can be warranted if you can tie it to a meaningful change.

Can we do that with Godley? Let’s find out.

I’m going to set a before/after date of the June 10th start at Colorado. (Incidentally, you may recall I noted a mechanical change for Patrick Corbin last year on June…