Inside the Rise of MacKenzie Gore and the Mysterious Potential of Gunnar Hoglund: What You Need to Know Now
When digging into why Rea has been so successful early on in the season, there’s not a lot that pops out.
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His arm angle is down almost four degrees, which has shifted his overall movement profile a bit, adding vertical movement to his arsenal overall. We can see this in particular on his splitter, curve, and four-seam fastball. While the four-seamer itself has just a bit more induced vertical break, given the lower arm slot, the pitch has a flatter vertical attack angle in 2025 and has also gained one mph, which has caused it to have better grades of stuff models.
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