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Casey Mize and a host of young Tigers pitchers started strong this spring

Now that all the Tigers starting pitchers have gotten their first outing in, and some their second, let’s circle back to see what Statcast can tell us about the quality of stuff we’re seeing. In the first part of this pair of articles, the main takeaway was that the Tigers pitchers had come to camp in game shape and velocity was up almost across the board from last year. Jack Flaherty, Joey Wentz, Beau Brieske, and several other pitchers showed out on the radar gun as Grapefruit League play got underway last weekend, while Tarik Skubal and top prospect Jackson Jobe was topping 99 mph in short bursts.