Chris Sale in Crisis: Rookie Andrew Abbott's Emergence Sparks Pitching Revolution
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However, one of the things that may move the needle is a new movement profile on his changeup. As you can see from Kyle Bland’s pitch chart below, the changeup has over three inches more vertical drop and slightly more arm-side run. He’s also almost doubled the usage of the pitch against righties up to 32% this year from 19.4% last year. His SwStr% has jumped to 23.3% on it from 12.5% last year, and that would be huge for him since he doesn’t want to rely much on his sweeper to righties, and both his four-seam and curve didn’t miss many bats against righties last season.
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