“Unleashing Potential: Can a Revitalized David Peterson Secure His Spot in the Mets’ Rotation?”
However, in execution, the pitch has been lacking a bit to start the season. He is throwing it in the strike zone more often, but he’s not getting it up in the zone as much as he wants, leaving it in the middle of the zone too often, which has led to a drop in swinging strike rate and an increase in hard contact rate allowed. The same is happening with Peterson’s changeup and is a big reason why his strikeout rate is up, but his overall swinging strike rate is down 4%.
“I think there’s gonna be a little give and take,” Peterson admitted about his four-seam approach, “but I think a lot of it is probably small sample size [right now], but being able to use the four seam up in the zone and giving the hitters two different fastballs looks has been big [for me].”
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