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Kyle Bradish - breakout candidate?


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Just now, sportsfan8703 said:

Interesting stuff. Bradish seems like he’s got better stuff than most of what I saw at the MLB level from our SP last year. 

@Luke-OH Why was the cutter so in a few years ago?  Mariano Rivera effect?

It gained popularity as a way for pitchers who lost velocity to avoid hard contact against their fastball. Now it's just used as part of a well rounded arsenal. It's useful for pitchers with a high 3/4 or over the top arm slot who have trouble creating horizontal action on a slider because of the difficultly getting around the ball from that slot. 

 

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2 hours ago, Luke-OH said:

It gained popularity as a way for pitchers who lost velocity to avoid hard contact against their fastball. Now it's just used as part of a well rounded arsenal. It's useful for pitchers with a high 3/4 or over the top arm slot who have trouble creating horizontal action on a slider because of the difficultly getting around the ball from that slot. 

 

You know who had a great cutter?    Bedard.   He’d throw a few 95-96 mph true fastballs and then throw a 90-91 mph cutter and the batters didn’t know what to do with it.    And of course, he had that ridiculous curve.    Really a devastating three-pitch combo, when he was healthy.   

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1 hour ago, Frobby said:

You know who had a great cutter?    Bedard.   He’d throw a few 95-96 mph true fastballs and then throw a 90-91 mph cutter and the batters didn’t know what to do with it.    And of course, he had that ridiculous curve.    Really a devastating three-pitch combo, when he was healthy.   

Bedard was the last truly dominant Orioles starter - and that was over a decade ago. Bundy had a few games here and there a year or so ago when the slider was insane where I thought: this is Bedard-level dominance in terms of K's. It was fleeting, of course.

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I like Bradish!

His arsenal reminds me of Chris Tillman with a hopefully more repeatable delivery. Tillman obviously had a much different fastball because he was all about throwing it up above the zone in his hey-day. But the 12-6 curve and fading change makes me think Tillman. 

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3 hours ago, Frobby said:

You know who had a great cutter?    Bedard.   He’d throw a few 95-96 mph true fastballs and then throw a 90-91 mph cutter and the batters didn’t know what to do with it.    And of course, he had that ridiculous curve.    Really a devastating three-pitch combo, when he was healthy.   

Palmer said Bedard probably had the best overall stuff, then any other lefty in Oriole History.

I think some could argue a few others had better stuff, but to just be considered as one of the better lefties that the Org has had, was something.

 

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I'm fudging the bump thread rule as a hat tip to Luke - I thought by January 2020 he'd been scooped up, but I guess it must have been not long after that.

Anyway, MLB.com Mayo has lots of substantial quotes from Blood and Perez on the main guys, and some others.

https://www.mlb.com/news/orioles-minor-league-spring-training-report?fbclid=IwAR1Bp9TGNa2HH4bb9HNtXUBAB6WQrfKwAqKCe-mFap9FdoyYMETa5PB9RVE

As is tradition, Blood loves him some Bradish like Elias loves him some Rio Ruiz.    We'll start seeing in a few more weeks.

Mayo got I guess enough juice in his Joey Ortiz quotes to give him a section of the overview.

“Ortiz has gotten stronger, the bat has gotten louder,” Blood said. “He’s always been a really good defender, he’s a true shortstop. Now he’s added more noise to his offense. That’s elevated him to another level. I think he’s an every day Major League middle infielder. He’s a good baseball player who could do all the things before but the bat was light. The bat is no longer light. That completely changes his profile.”

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Joey Ortiz isnt even on any prospect lists that im aware off either. Thats encouraging news if he can stick at SS. I do see he is rated 36th on fangraphs Orioles top 45, with a 35+ rating. Not exactly eye opening. Grenier is ranked 21st. Ortiz is the lowest rated MI on that list. 

Age 22.6 Height 5′ 11″ Weight 175 Bat / Thr R / R FV 35+
Tool Grades (Present/Future)
Hit Raw Power Game Power Run Fielding Throw
30/45 40/45 30/35 55/55 50/60 55

Ortiz is a glove-first shortstop prospect whose offensive production in college was ultra-inflated by the Las Cruces altitude. His swing, unaltered since college to my eye, is long and only capable of doing pull-side damage. The glove gives him a good shot to be a utility infielder but that outcome is dependent on something more developing on offense. (Fall Instructional League)

 

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