What is happening? Welcome to the PlusBitch Podcast. More Pitching Podcast from PitcherList.com.

My name is Nick Pollock, and today we're going to talk about the Milwaukee Brewers.

And also, my top 400 starting pitchers are going to be out tomorrow on February 20th.

Top 400 starting pitchers for 2025.

It's insane. It's like 100,000 words.

Enjoy it.

And Freddie Peralta will be there.

Where is he going to be? You're going to have to

wait and find out. He is someone that I just don't want to draft. He's someone that I've called

Professor Chaos back in my day because he's volatile. He's someone who has good feel with his

cross-body mechanics, throwing fast balls in the zone constantly, and then hopefully not missing out of the zone too much with those fastballs and then the slider and the curveball and the change up hopefully getting enough strikes.

And guess what last year we saw a lot of that volatility with his slider to right handers had a 55% strike rate despite 31% usage.

Oh my gosh.

No wonder the walk rate was worse last year.

It just really wasn't amazing.

And what's also interesting is that the extension got worse.

And that meant his height adjusted VAA got worse.

And it might be because he was trying to get more vert on his fastball, which he did do.

You got an extra inch on it.

It was actually much higher in April and we were freaking out about it.

Then it just went away.

And at the end of the day, I understand for Roto Leagues, you go with Freddie Peralta.

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