Kyle Bradish 2024

[Roll Tide]

Happy to see Bradish throw well. Hopefully this is a sign that he’s good to go.

[Billy F-Face3]

3 hours ago, interloper said:

For the amount of weird nonsense that occurred during his start, I thought he looked awesome. 

-Bee
-Catcher's interference
-HBP where the batter didn't try to move
-McCann dropped foul tip 3rd strike
-Cop badge reflection delay
-Beach ball delay
-Lucky weak double inside the bag
-One of the worst throws I've seen from a LFer

This. And the umpire wasn't calling strikes as strikes either.  As someone else said, the Umpire squeezed him.

All things considered, Bradish remained poised and produced and a very good start on the mound today. 

One of my favorite pitchers is back!

[TopGunnar]

Pretty incredible Bradish threw today. Maybe his tear wasn’t too bad. Either way, hope he stays healthy. We’re a World Series contender if we have Burnes, Brad, and Rod in October

[NashLumber]

5 hours ago, RVAOsFan said:

Jim Palmer said he looked like 2023 Bradish so I am going to go with his opinion over yours  

This was the MLB story on it this afternoon. Some agreement with Jim. 

 

Same as it ever was: Bradish's '24 debut evokes '23 dominance

[Roy Firestone]

19 minutes ago, TopGunnar said:

Pretty incredible Bradish threw today. Maybe his tear wasn’t too bad. Either way, hope he stays healthy. We’re a World Series contender if we have Burnes, Brad, and Rod in October

I'm pretty sure there was no tear...unless you know something I dont.It was soreness on his UCL.Whatever it was, his velocity and movement were excellent today.. Now we cross our fingers and hope he remains pain free.

[OriolesMagic83]

1 minute ago, NashLumber said:

This was the MLB story on it this afternoon. Some agreement with Jim. 

 

Same as it ever was: Bradish's '24 debut evokes '23 dominance

Bradish really seemed to be painting the corners but getting squeezed quite a bit by the umps.  I hope he feels ok tomorrow. 

[dystopia]

44 minutes ago, TopGunnar said:

Pretty incredible Bradish threw today. Maybe his tear wasn’t too bad. Either way, hope he stays healthy. We’re a World Series contender if we have Burnes, Brad, and Rod in October

I think it’s safe to say he probably had the mildest of damage. His rehab starts all went well and looked like typical Bradish today too. Cautiously optimistic. 

[Malike]

Technically, he looked better than his first start in the 2023 season.

[TopGunnar]

2 minutes ago, dystopia said:

I think it’s safe to say he probably had the mildest of damage. His rehab starts all went well and looked like typical Bradish today too. Cautiously optimistic. 

Agreed

[Just Regular]

Aaron Nola's been the hopeful case all along.     Since 2017 when he returned from his August 2016 strain, he is about to become the MLB leader in Innings Pitched when he passes Gerrit Cole in two more rotation cycles.    Cole/Nola about 75 innings up on 3rd place Berrios in that span.

Best wishes for Bradish that's him in another 7 years!

[frankwhite]

I was happy with what I saw. I honestly went into it not expecting much. He had a few rough spots but didn't totally crumble. Really encouraging! 

[Just Regular]

Small sample theater - PitchingBot's ERA estimator pegged his ~85 pitches yesterday for a 2.82 ERA, about 90th percentile filtering for the "as SP" positional split.

2023 it had him about 80th percentile.

[LGOrioles]

7 hours ago, Just Regular said:

Small sample theater - PitchingBot's ERA estimator pegged his ~85 pitches yesterday for a 2.82 ERA, about 90th percentile filtering for the "as SP" positional split.

2023 it had him about 80th percentile.

Looked like his sinker velo was the same as last year. Slider and curve were a little down but spin rates were up. Glad to have him back and hopefully he stays healthy. 

[KojiSplit]

Bradish looked real solid in person. He did get himself into some jams but got out of em with some huge strikeouts and timely outs. 9ks in 5 innings as he was throwing 97mph sinker, 98mph heater and dropping that curve on the DC squadron.

1st inning runners 2nd and 3rd one out back to back called third strikes.
2nd inning 2nd and 3rd two outs gets Abrams looking.
Struck out the side in the 5th to end his night.

[Frobby]

Fell behind some hitters but you really can't complain.  He was pretty overpowering