What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. You more and Pitching Podcasts from

PitcherList.com. My name is Nick Pollack. Today is January 24th. And yes, we are going to talk about

baseball. Oh, the Chicago Cubs. Yeah, they have actually a very interesting rotation. And they have

Tyler Zambrow now, who, if you don't know, was with Tread Athletics, met him at the winter meetings,

worked with Cole Regens. And now he's going to be inside of the front office, working with

that staff. It's a very interesting situation. You have Matthew Boyd also coming in.

You have James and Tyone. Those guys are very much pitch development minds.

And with the rest of the crew, I kind of think that they are going to be having a little

bit more of this analytics shift, a little bit more of the tinkering that we want them to

see.

So I'm excited to see hopefully a step forward in taking advantage of everything that these

pitchers do and showed it a men for one he's interesting because when I thought

about show them and I'm gonna enter this I was like okay he has a fastball I got

worse as a season went on and he had that really good start of the year and then it

got worse the rest of the year and it's really just four seamer splitter sometimes

sweeper I was totally wrong the four four seamer, no, not a width pitch. Okay, under 10% swing strike rate

on the pitch, if you can believe it. But heavy strike rate, PLV loves it because it's located well.

It also comes with good vert. It also comes with good attack. 1.4 heighted just a BAA that takes advantage of

his high locations in 17 to 18 inches of vert. That did change as the season

went on. It did go down a bit. It did come back. And when it came

to the story of Imanaga's season, yes, he had those first, I think

was 7-8 games that were just, oh my gosh, it's like a sub one ERA, amazing. But that doesn't mean that he did poorly the rest of the year. He actually had two games. One was 10 runs and one was seven. But even including that, he still had a sub four ERA the rest of the year. He still had to whip around 105 or so 110 like it was still great

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