Don’t worry about Aaron Nola (yet)

Kyle Ross-Imagn Images Let’s start with a table.

Pitch velocities

Pitch Avg. velocity Pitch Avg. velocity Four-seam fastball 91.1 Sinker 90.6 Cutter 87.0 Changeup 85.1 Curveball 78.7 This is scary. This is one of the things that people have latched on to when complaining about Aaron Nola. It’s been easy to do as he has not pitched well in any of his first four outings. The first and easiest thing to fault as the culprit of his issues is the pitch velocity for everything in his arsenal, which you can see from above. “Isn’t his fastball usually 2-3 miles per hour faster?” has been a common question amongst the writers here. “I think so” is what is usually comes as the response, followed by a…