Analyzing Grayson's First Start in the Bigs

[DocJJ]

Wow, he's been unbelievably bad...  I know he's young and a rookie and it's only been a few starts, but I never thought he'd be ERA 10.00 runs a game bad...

 

Could he be hurt??  

[Hank Scorpio]

We were due for a bullpen game, I guess. 

He just doesn’t appear to be ready. I’m not sure what the heck else he has to do at Norfolk, but we can’t have farts like this. 

[Hank Scorpio]

Just now, DocJJ said:

Wow, he's been unbelievably bad...  I know he's young and a rookie and it's only been a few starts, but I never thought he'd be ERA 10.00 runs a game bad...

 

Could he be hurt??  

If he’s hurt he is a cyborg, touching 98.

[joelala]

1 minute ago, Hank Scorpio said:

If he’s hurt he is a cyborg, touching 98.

[Redgrape]

Obviously Grayson has had some disappointing outings, but wow does he have an impressive pitch arsenal. Fastball, sweeper, and change up all seem to be plus pitches.

[Flash- bd]

18 minutes ago, Redgrape said:

Obviously Grayson has had some disappointing outings, but wow does he have an impressive pitch arsenal. Fastball, sweeper, and change up all seem to be plus pitches.

I like his slurve better, honestly. 

@RZNJ

 

Anyways, people seem to expect that a rookie pitcher is going to come up and immediately dominate. He's clearly still learning his craft at the MLB level. He's made 3 starts. Patience. The arsenal and tools are very much there. 

[HakunaSakata]

1 hour ago, DocJJ said:

Wow, he's been unbelievably bad...  I know he's young and a rookie and it's only been a few starts, but I never thought he'd be ERA 10.00 runs a game bad...

 

Could he be hurt??  

If you take a look under the hood he actually settled down and absolutely dominated after the first inning. He also established his change-up quite a bit more and it looked incredible. Better days are ahead. He just needs to get over his 1st inning jitters. I'm sure the rain delay probably didn't help things today.

[Sports Guy]

2 minutes ago, HakunaSakata said:

If you take a look under the hood he actually settled down and absolutely dominated after the first inning. He also established his change-up quite a bit more and it looked incredible. Better days are ahead. He just needs to get over his 1st inning jitters. I'm sure the rain delay probably didn't help things today.

Don’t expect that guy to actually be rational.

[Spy Fox]

Excellent comeback after the first. His current tendency to be on one inning, off the next, is similar to my memory of a young Jake Arrieta. 

Jake seemed to stay in that mode for years, until figuring it out almost instantly once he wasn't an Oriole. Hopefully Grayson turns that corner sooner. 

[sportsfan8703]

You have to give him another start. Scrap that 5 pitch crap. Establish the fastball then work off that. The analytics people are getting too carried away. Let Adley call the game. 

[nvpacchi]

issuing the first walk of the season to Luis Robert set the tone for what was to come,  but nice to see him buckle down

didn't get to watch the game, but seeing 8 whiffs on the change up is great! now just need to put it together from inning 1.

 

[sportsfan8703]

Who is calling the pitches here?  Adley isn’t putting down fingers. I think it’s our Asst PC. Scrap the analytics. Just establish one pitch. 

[oh-wee-ohs]

20 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Who is calling the pitches here?  Adley isn’t putting down fingers. I think it’s our Asst PC. Scrap the analytics. Just establish one pitch. 

No catcher is throwing down fingers anymore fyi. There's a button system in the catchers armband that calls pitches audibly into a headset thing in the pitchers hat. Instituted last year to prevent all the various sign-stealing cheating going on re Houston trash can banging, etc.

And side note on this: I heard an interview the other day where Shohei is the only pitcher that's the opposite. He wears the armband and his catcher where's the headset. He's got way too many variations of pitches and could take upwards of 30 seconds or more for him to get the catcher to call what he wants to throw. He's totally memorized the armband like he's texting without looking.

Edited April 17, 2023 by oh-wee-ohs

[Pickles]

22 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Who is calling the pitches here?  Adley isn’t putting down fingers. I think it’s our Asst PC. Scrap the analytics. Just establish one pitch. 

Do you think  they changed pitch callers after the first?

The issue wasn't what was being called.  They hit hrs off both fastballs and breaking balls in the first.  The problem was that he couldn't throw a strike that wasn't in the center of the plate.

[Spy Fox]

29 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Who is calling the pitches here?  Adley isn’t putting down fingers. I think it’s our Asst PC. Scrap the analytics. Just establish one pitch. 

What makes you think analytics are telling him not to throw fastballs?