What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. Your morning pitching podcast from

PitcherList.com. My name is Nick Pollack. Today is June 6th. And yes, we are going to talk

about baseball. Jordan Montgomery. Oh boy. Two in six and runs. Um, he is a Toby. He's always been

a Toby. And you can drop him in your 12 teamers because if at Toby is not doing well you don't trust them then

yeah don't don't do this um you want actual analysis as curveball is getting fewer whiffs

and his change up um has been utilized differently and it's actually making it a worse pitch

so i want to mean by that is like throwing it more early in counts

and it's just not getting the same results. And as fastballs have always been middling.

The best version of Jordan Montgomery is when he's doing the neck beard approach and actually

in rhythm. He does that for like a month, maybe two of the season. He did during the playoffs last

year. And there you go. There's your, your lovely

playoff tax. But yeah, Jordan Montgomery is not that guy. At least he isn't now. He could be moving

forward. It could be a tiara a bit that is turning around right away. But you don't need to invest in

that in your 12 team. You don't feel like you need to hold on to this and just keep starting him. I know I went on Joe Rico's fantastic podcast. I'm 90 feet from home yesterday. I said like,

don't worry about John Montgomery. He is what he is. And that is very true. At the same time,

I also want to mention like 15 teamers, you probably have to hold on to this. 12 timers you don't.

Okay, cool. Nick Povetta against Atlanta got the win, seven innings, zeroed runs, one hit, two walks, nine strikeouts.

18 with some 37% CSW4A, golden goal. And did this against Atlanta, which is great. I am a little weirded

out that he threw fewer than 10 cutters. I do think that that is more of a sustainable pass to success

for Povetta. That is, having a cutter, they confidently those were strikes, I think really shifted the second half for Pivotta. That is, having a cutter, the conflate throws for

strikes, I think really shifted the second half for Pivotta last year. That meant that the

curveball and the sweeper didn't have to do that work to complement the four-seamer. But those

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