Inside the Rise of MacKenzie Gore and the Mysterious Potential of Gunnar Hoglund: What You Need to Know Now
The changeup is the standout pitch, though. It has 17 inches of arm-side and tumbles out of the zone. It’s why Hoglund throws the pitch in the lower third 73% of the time and has no problem using it as a two-strike offering. Even though he threw it early in the count nearly 73% of the time against lefties in his MLB debut, he only used it in two-strike counts against righties, getting two whiffs and two strikeouts on four pitches.
It’s because Hoglund uses his sinker 40.5% of the time to righties that the changeup works. The sinker also has 17 inches of arm-side run but comes in at 93 mph instead of 87 mph and has far less drop. He loves to jam righties inside with the sinker, so when they start looking for it, he mixes in a changeup, which drops out of the zone and gets a swing-and-miss.
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