Mike Petriello
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2,394 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 6d ago
Mike Petriello’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's not a fluke because the regular season was also the highest zone rate of any regular season.
Like, clearly this is a trend.
And some of it is exactly what you said.
Everybody's got nasty stuff, and the catchers are basically saying, just throw it in the zone.
Don't worry about trying to hit your spots.
Your stuff is filthy enough that it will be fine.
And, you know, that gets a little bit exacerbated in the playoffs when you don't have your fifth starter throwing a lot of innings.
And some of these guys have taken it to extremes, like Blake Snell, who's been unbelievable for the last couple weeks.
I've pretty openly said for his entire career, I have a lot of respect for him in terms of how good he is, and I've never enjoyed watching him pitch because he's never thrown it in the zone and he's walking everybody.
All of a sudden, he's throwing strikes, like, all the time.
And you would think it's just, okay, well, I'm going to throw a 98 down the middle.
That's not really what's happening.
He's filling the zone with off-speed and breaking balls.
He actually had, I think, 32, or I can't remember exactly what it was, 35 pitches in the zone in his last start that were not fastballs, which was a career high for him, which is really interesting.
And you might think that some of the opposing hitters would be like, okay, great, I'm getting something to hit.
And it just turns out it's really hard to hit this stuff
And a lot of these teams can't really do anything with it.
You've seen that with the Blue Jays a little bit.
You've seen that with the Brewers a lot where they're not striking out.
They're putting the ball in play, but they're not getting anything out of it.
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