“Unleashing Potential: Can a Revitalized David Peterson Secure His Spot in the Mets’ Rotation?”
“We’ve been trying to get back to the slider that I had in 2022 and get more of that swing and miss,” explained Peterson. During the 2024 season, Peterson posted solid ratios but had just a 19.8% strikeout rate and a 10.9% swinging strike rate. Both of which were below league average. For comparison’s sake, in 2022, he had a 27.8% strikeout rate and 12.8% swinging strike rate in 105.2 innings with the Mets.
So far in 2025, the swinging strike rate is up on Peterson’s slider, as is the overall strike rate, but the pitch has seen its biggest gains against right-handed hitters. Not only is the swinging strike rate up to righties, but the Ideal Contact Rate (a Pitcher List stat which measures barrels and solid contact and hard groundballs) is down from 57% last year to 25% this year. That’s huge for Peterson since the only other pitch he throws to righties that had at least an average swinging strike last year is his four-seam fastball.
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