Chris Sale in Crisis: Rookie Andrew Abbott's Emergence Sparks Pitching Revolution
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The most obvious change for Roupp has been the introduction of a cutter. He’s only thrown the pitch 6.4% of the time overall this season, but he uses it 14% of the time against lefties and throws it 83% of the time early in counts as his primary fastball to them. He does a good job of locating the pitch up and in and pounds the zone with it at a 56% zone rate and 72% strike rate to lefties.
He does use the sinker to lefties as well, and he locates that up in the zone often, so the two fastball variations play well off of one another, but using the cutter up and in also sets up his changeup, which he throws 19.4% of the time to lefties and keeps down in the zone 96% of the time. He has also added more movement overall on the changeup, so he’s been able to post a solid 37.5% chase rate on the pitch to lefties this year.
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