Inside the Rise of MacKenzie Gore and the Mysterious Potential of Gunnar Hoglund: What You Need to Know Now
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This year, he turned his old slider into more of a cutter and added in a slower slider. The new cutter is 90 mph with a little over 6 inches of vertical movement and just under one inch of horizontal break. That means it’s a slightly tighter version of the pitch he threw last year. The new cutter grades out poorly on Picher List’s PLV metric, but that’s mainly because Gore is throwing it in the zone just 35% of the time, so his command of it is not elite. Yet, he’s also posting a 26.5% SwStr% on it, and it has become a solid fourth offering to righties to go along with his four-seamer, curve, and changeup.
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