Inside the Rise of MacKenzie Gore and the Mysterious Potential of Gunnar Hoglund: What You Need to Know Now
But that doesn’t help with the lefty problem. That’s what the new slider is for.
Gore’s slider in 2025 is 86.5 mph with just 2.5 inches of horizontal movement but essentially no drop. Considering he gets huge vertical break on his curveball, having the slider be a more horizontal pitch with less bite is a nice change, and you can see how it feels like a different movement profile to lefties from looking at Kyle Bland’s chart below. The slider dots, in purple, are now more of a middle ground between the cutter (brown) and the curve (blue). He doesn’t use all three to the same type of hitters, but he has created a more unique movement profile on his secondary pitches, which is nice.
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