Wil Crowe didn't know he was a slow worker until he became a Pirate. It wasn't an analyst or coach who told him, but rather, his teammates.
"Ben Gamel always gave me s--- last year," Crowe told me. "He would always say, 'you can work faster, if you want.' It's a joke, I get it, but I wore it last year."
Crowe definitely took his time between pitches last year. Whenever there was a runner on base, he averaged 27.2 seconds between pitches. According to Baseball Savant, that was the fourth-slowest time out of the 81 pitchers who threw at least 1,000 pitches that year.