DRaysBay · May 1, 2019
What is this pitch from Jalen Beeks?
Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY SportsFor today’s roundtable, here’s a discussion from this morning’s Slack on what the heck Jalen Beeks is throwing this season...
Danny Russell: I wrote an article today where you might notice I said Beeks was returning to throwing his slider instead of a cutter.
This was based on his own statements during Spring Training, but when filtering for 2018 and forward, the slider doesn’t even make an appearance in the Brooks Baseball data set.
Ian Malinowski: Brooks won’t know the change, which looks slight but potentially there, and his cutter was always on the slider side of movement. We probably need to talk to him to get at what’s going on there.