Coming off his second consecutive scoreless outing, Erick Fedde, who had a 3.86 ERA and a .219/.300/.363 line against in nine starts and 44 1⁄3 innings pitched this season after those starts, talked about the influence Washington Nationals’ pitching coach Jim Hickey has had on him over the first few months of the 2021 campaign.
“I think he’s been a big help with me,” Fedde told reporters in his post-start Zoom call last week. “I’ve said before, early in Spring Training he kind of broke down some of the things that the best sinker-ballers in the big leagues do and compared them to my stuff and we just tried to match up a few things of mine that were off.