Jacob Misiorowski’s Meteoric Rise: Will This Fantasy Baseball Phenom Defy the Odds or Crash Hard?
However, this is where the command comes into play. A pitch that electric is often hard to control, and Misiorowski had just a 44% zone rate on it during his debut, which is well below the 52.4% mark that’s MLB league average for a starting pitcher. Some of that might be due to nerves, but having just a 9% called-strike rate is not great for your four-seam fastball, which is supposed to be a foundational pitch that Misiorowski can also use to get ahead in the count with.
Yet, it seems like Misiorowski has another pitch for that, which is his slider/cutter. It’s classified as a slider right now, but it’s 94.3 mph with just 1.7 inches of horizontal movement and feels an awful lot like a cutter. He had a 48% zone rate on that pitch despite a below-average 56% strike rate. He used it early in the count 70% of the time to righties, which also suggests that he views it as a strike pitch that he can get ahead with. He threw 23 of his 25 cutters to righties, and only threw his four-seam early in the count 33% of the time to righties, so we’re seeing a clear approach. Misiorowski will use the cutter to get ahead on righties and then have the four-seamer as a two-strike pitch, but will use the four-seamer early in the count to lefties and then go to his curveball.
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