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Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast.

Morning Pitching podcast from Pitcherlist.com.

My name is Nick Pollack.

Today is April 27th.

And yes, we are going to talk about baseball.

We are leading with Yusei Kikuchi.

Is there a chance?

Well, maybe he's not doing too well right now.

Two innings forward runs, nine hits, four walks, and zero strikeouts.

How am I supposed to butter my

bread with this and his pitching performance against the chicago white socks on saturday oh my gosh

we had zero over 27 whiffs on his four seamer 93.8 mile per hour velocity is just not going to cut

it while the slider had a 52% strike rate i I mean, of course he's going to have low strike

rates. He had all of these walks. The problem here is twofold. One, Yusay Kekuchi hasn't come

through despite having an amazing schedule to start the year of six teams that are below average

offenses. And the second part is that he's on the Angels. Why does that matter that he's on the

angels? Well, they aren't really known for their pitching development.

And I had my concerns entering this season that Yusay Kikuchi would not get the help he needs

when he's in trouble to fix whatever is broken to get back on track.

And we haven't seen that this, thus far in the season, I should say, because

let's look at this.

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