
Effectively Wild Episode 2016: We’ve Got Good News and Bad News
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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Jake McGee's Reliance on the Four Seam Fastball
"I think he's as in love with it as anyone else is because it's basically all he throws," says Hensley. "Chasmicormic hit a home run off him that was 102.5 miles per hour, the third fastest pitch hit for a homerun in the Statcast era" He has mixed in one of these cutter kind of slider sort of things,. But almost never does he throw that. It's been 94.3% four seam fastballs so far. And the cutter 3.8%, the slider 1.9% are actually different pitches.
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