Since the first day that left-handed pitcher Richard Bleier set foot on a major league mound, he’s been easy to distinguish from his peers. It took eight full years of professional baseball for him to debut at the highest level, at which point Bleier was already past his 29th birthday. In this golden age of pitch velocity, he has never cracked 93 miles per hour, according to Statcast. The pre-Marlins portion of his career was spent in home ballparks with extreme hitter-friendly conditions yet he developed a consistent formula for keeping batted balls on the ground (and runs off the scoreboard).
All the times Richard Bleier almost issued a walk
