Jacob Misiorowski’s Meteoric Rise: Will This Fantasy Baseball Phenom Defy the Odds or Crash Hard?
The cutter doesn’t miss a ton of bats, but it’s Bello’s best fastball variation and gives him another pitch he can command while he struggles to harness his changeup. Bello’s change has a league-average swinging strike rate to lefties, and his slider has a league-average swinging strike rate to righties, so having multiple fastball variations where he can get ahead certainly raises his floor. However, I still think Bello won’t take a true leap forward until he figures out his changeup, which is, for some reason, now over two mph harder than it has been in his career and is posting a career-worst zone rate and strike rate. That’s going to be the true key to unlocking Bello, but I do think this new cutter usage makes him a bit safer by raising his floor.
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