When you ask fans who the must-watch players are in the game of baseball, Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto, Mookie Betts, Max Scherzer, and Shohei Ohtani are probably some of the popular answers. Austin Adams was one of those players this year though for hard core fans because you didn’t know if he was going to do something you’ve never seen before that night.
Sometimes that meant striking out the side on sliders and other times that meant hitting seemingly every single batter he faced like he did on September 12 against the Dodgers. In 2021, Adams set the record for the most hit batters in a single season by one pitcher with 24.