What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. You're more pitching podcast from Pitcher List.com. My name is Nick Pollack. Today we're going to talk about Atlanta.

Yes, this wonderful team that could make the World Series. Actually, the second highest probability according to fan graphs to win the World Series. I know. Wild.

Because this rotation does not have depth. And I'm really surprised that Atlanta didn't go and get one more guy to add to this as they lost Charlie Morden and, I mean, not to say that that's a major loss.

It's just, it's interesting because you have Chris Sale and Spencer Strider.

Now, I put out a Twitter poll, two of them, saying first, if both get 130 innings, Chris Thale and Spencer

Strider, who do you think performs better? Two to one said it's Spencer Strider. I agree with that.

Then who gets more innings? And it's two to one Chris Sale to Spencer Strider. And I don't

know if I agree with that one. There's this understanding for

ages entering last year that Chris Sale should only be expected for X amount of innings. You

can't possibly think he's going to go 170 or something like that. Then he does. And then everybody

changes on a dime saying there's no way you shouldn't expect the 170. What? This is Chris Sale. This is a guy

who hasn't pitched a last year was the only year since 2017 was it? Maybe it was 18 when he

hadn't been limited in some degree and I want remind Joe, he ended the season with back issues and

didn't pitch in the postseason. Right. There are a lot of reasons why Chris Sale, yes, former

Saly winner, Chris Sail, would not be who he is next year, right? It would not be able to replicate

the same thing.

I may have been a little down, too down on his replication of K-mius walk rate, essentially his strike cuts and walks.

Because when he has been Chris Sale and not really the weirdness that we've seen in the past

few years, that is really who he's been.

However, he did that with a harder fastball. I pitched that was like

96, 97 or so. 94.8 was last year's mark. And without a amazing change up. The way I see it

is Chris Sale should get some regression next year. Shocking, I know. But not just in the luck.

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