Wheeler’s Pitches are Upper Crust

Zack Wheeler isn’t just one of baseball’s best pitchers, but one of its craftiest. He’s always experimenting, tinkering, tweaking a detail here or there. So much of pitching is about about keeping batters from getting comfortable, and Wheeler always seems to have an airhorn ready to blow next to his foes’ heads just as they’re settling down. So if I told you that he’s doing something differently to keep batters bedeviled this year, you’d probably guess it was some sort of exciting new pitch (maybe one of those trendy kick-changes all the cool kids are throwing?). Maybe a savvy change in his pitch mix, giving batters the pitches they know in sequences and numbers they’d never expect?

It’s…