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View from the Catwalks: Luis Patiño’s Electric Rays Debut

Luis Patiño averaged 12.1" of vertical mvmt (vMov) on his 4S in 2020.

Eyeballing his mvmt plot from today - looks like 5/7 4S were <12".

Good sign! Maybe conscious fix by TB, maybe Patiño aging out of his natural cut.

Note: in Baseball Savant-land, higher vMov # is LESS vMov. pic.twitter.com/Y1I4VZecEy— Lance Brozdowski (@LanceBroz) March 4, 2021

  • Command was certainly there in his first Rays inning, along with some gas:

Luis Patiño tosses a scoreless second inning in his #RaysUp spring debut with a hit and a K.