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NSFW: Let’s watch some of Adam Ottavino’s sliders together

Adam Ottavino should be illegal. I’m not saying he’s cheating, by all reports he is playing by the rules, I’m saying he, as like an entity, should be illegal.

In Denver, we’ve seen ‘Otto’ go from waiver pickup to one of the nastiest backend bullpen options in baseball. Discounting the year he was used a piggyback in the Colorado Rockies’ Project 5183, where four starters were used and limited to 75 pitchers per appearances, Ottavino has a 2.75 ERA in 193.1 innings over 182 outings in Denver. In those 182 games from the year 2013 up until the present Otto has a 9.