“Unleashing Potential: Can a Revitalized David Peterson Secure His Spot in the Mets’ Rotation?”
While some of that might be tightening up the movement of the pitch, the biggest component, as Peterson alluded to, is the location. The left-hander has thrown the slider in the lower third of the strike zone (or below) 87% of the time this season, up from 74% last year. The pitch is starting as a strike and then falling out of the strike zone, hence the lower zone rate, but getting more swings and misses. Exactly the change the 29-year-old wanted.
Yet, it’s not the only change that Peterson was looking to make in the off-season.
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