With the limited time between starts, Cardinals right-hander Dakota Hudson “went to the shop” to figure out how recent starts went awry, and it took all of the team’s data and all the team’s video to put Hudson’s mechanics back together again.
Pitching coach Mike Maddux had Hudson watch replays of teammates Miles Mikolas, Junior Fernandez, Adam Wainwright, and others “who fill up the zone with strikes” so he could compare the consistency of their deliveries to his. Dusty Blake, the club’s pitching strategist, ran the numbers to reveal the arm angle Hudson had when landed the most strikes.