Kevin Fishbane
speaker
8,130 appearances
31 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Sep
Kevin Fishbane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Posting, here's the slash, 294, 391, 497 was the line.
That was the best in April in run value, plus 30.
and was in fact one of the best fastball marks in any month by any team over the last three years.
So I only point that out to show that there is evidence that the Cubs can adjust to the breaking ball, and they can be good against the breaking ball.
They just happen to have gone into a really, really bad slump in a lot of different ways, and especially as this excellent article points out, the breaking ball is a problem.
Well, I mean, because it's just logic, right?
Okay, well, if they're all similar hitters and they all are struggling at the same time, then theoretically, whoever's job it is to stop them every day is probably doing it.
And again, you know, we talk about the concept of he go, we go.
Well, it's also he stops, we stopped.
And Alex Bregman is the example in this story by Petriello.
Alex Bregman saw 31% of breaking balls over the last five years.
He is up to 43% this month, easily a career high.
It's not hard to see why either, says Petriello.
So far this season, Bregman has hit .306.
with a 413 slugging percentage against fastballs, 334 with a 500 slugging against off-speed pitches, 155 with a 211 slug against breaking balls.
Why would you throw anything else?
We talked about David Sandlin, for example, who throws a hell of a curveball and a lot more.
Why would you ever, if you're that good at it, why would you ever throw him a fastball in the at-bat?
Until they show they can hit it, you're absolutely right.
And you go through this top 10 list.
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