Inside the Rise of MacKenzie Gore and the Mysterious Potential of Gunnar Hoglund: What You Need to Know Now
It was just one MLB appearance for Hogund against a below-average opponent, so we don’t want to overreact too much, but we got a sense of his approach, and I came away more or less sold on it.
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I expect Hoglund to have more success against lefties, where he uses his four-seam fastball 46% of the time and his changeup 28% of the time. He also tosses his slider 23% and mixes in the odd sweeper here and there. The four-seam fastball itself is a solid pitch. It has solid 6.8 feet of extension and elite 18.9 inches of induced vertical movement. It’s a relatively flat fastball that he uses middle and up the vast majority of the time and pounds the zone with at a 64% clip. Those are all things we like to see.
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