Allen Webster’s Secondary Pitches Are Absolutely Filthy

The Cubs optioned Carl Edwards Jr. to Triple-A and called up Allen Webster in hope of restoring some consistency to the bullpen. Now that Webster is up in the bigs, the Cubs can’t send him down unless he passes through waivers, which seems unlikely given his ridiculous stuff.

Even though Webster threw just 3 innings for the Cubs in 2018, we can still look at some of his Trackman data in order to get an idea of what his stuff looks like. The 29-year-old throws mainly two secondary offerings: a changeup and a slider.

Changeup

Webster’s changeup appears to be pretty nasty, according to both the eye test and the data. You can see below that the 19 changeups Webster threw last year had more spin…