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326 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 16 Apr \ parent \ on: CJ Wilson / @Str8edgeracer AMA AMA
Fantastic insight! I remember when spin first seemed to burst on the scene with Ryan Pressly being the example I can think of. He was solid on the Twins but it seemed like the Astros really were able to leverage the spin rate and make him even better! I feel that was a Jeff Luhnow move with his NASA background
At one of the winter meetings for the players union, I went to dinner with Gerrit Cole and Max Scherzer. Max and I were convincing GC to stop throwing sinkers and forcing contact and instead telling him to try and strike people out with bigger velocity differences and 4 seam spinning stuff. He was like 'guys I don't think that would work' and Max and I were laughing at him going DUDE NOBODY WANTS 99 CHEST HIGH JUST TRY IT.
I had come off a year where I had struck out 200 guys and remember saying - dude there is no universe that exists in which I should have more strikeouts than you!
GC got traded to the astros a few years later and ended up getting into the spin rate/ carry thing and has been at another level since.
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I truly dont know what it is with our farm system because it hasn't been ranked great in years now but somehow we keep producing solid players like McCormick and Meyers. Even Yander Diaz one of my favorite young guys to watch right now was never ranked by the scouts that high.
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