Jacob Misiorowski’s Meteoric Rise: Will This Fantasy Baseball Phenom Defy the Odds or Crash Hard?
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He threw seven of his 11 curveballs to lefties and used it in two-strike counts 85.7% of the time, so the plan is pretty clear. It’s an 88 mph pitch with nearly 11 inches of drop and six inches of horizontal run and can be downright filthy at times. It’s incredibly rare to find a curve that’s nearly 90 mph that drops as much as Misiorowski’s does, but that could also be why he struggles to command it. All four of his curves to righties were thrown for strikes because it’s just a “get me over pitch” against right-handed hitters. However, just two of his seven curves to lefties were for strikes. He missed up and away a handful of times, which indicates he was over-throwing, and had a below-average PutAway Rate on the pitch, which measures how often a two-strike pitch results in a strikeout.
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