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Against righties, it seems like the biggest change has been leaning into his two slider variations more often. The sweeper has a little bit of added depth this season, but Sears is using it far more early in the count and not focusing as much on burying it down in the strike zone, which is good because sweepers down and in to opposite handed hitters tend to be a recipe for disaster. He has a 97th-percentile zone rate on the sweeper when using it to righties, and I think a big reason for that is because he uses it to set up his slider, which is tighter and flatter this season and has thrived as a two-strike pitch. Sears uses it 66% of the time with two-strikes against righties, and has a solid 16.4% SwStr on it.
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