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Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. More pitching podcast from PitcherList.com. My name is Nick Pollack. Today is July 3rd, and yes, we are going to talk about baseball. My gosh, there were 38 games technically yesterday. 38. And I even need to talk about the suspended one because we got Brian Bayo in there too. I mean, there's just so much stuff. Okay, so Elev is the one I led with today. That is Mitch Keller, seven innings, pitch of zero and runs five hits, one walk, and seven strikeouts. He now is a 308 ERA and a 104 whip with a 20% strike rate across his last 61 innings. All right, that's over 60 and the 10 starts. That's over six innings per start,

just two of them underneath six and that was a 5.1 and 5.2. And only a trio of games above two more runs. Three three and a clunker against Houston at six. So what's going on with Mitch Keller? The way I see it is he's had more success than I expected against right handers, where his four seamer in his, which are my biggest problems with him, they are dead zone pitches at like 94, are surviving because I don't know,

more so that the slider and the sweeper had been good in a way.

And against lefties, those pitches get absolutely destroyed.

So I see him as a right-handed focus one where if he doesn't do well against right, he's

on a given night, it's very bad, and he's just hoping that the lefties don't destroy him.

He goes against the lefty lineup, you don't want to do that.

And Mitch Keller, honestly, I don't think is going to continue having these low ICRs, that is

the ideal contact rate, so preventing good contact from

hitters, constantly those fastballs moving forward. It's up to you. It's a low strike rate, 20%

right? And I just, I just think that you can do better streaming otherwise, but for quality

start leagues, I get it. You get the Royals next. You do you. Nathan Evaldi went 72 pitches.

Way higher than I expected.

And after going by like 45 or something, his last one. So we got a win against the Orioles for five innings, zero and runs. Two hits, one walk, 5Ks. That's great. We're happy about this. This cutter was so good. Noah Cameron at the T against Seattle 4.2 winnings of of zeroed runs, five base runners and 5Ks.

Here's the thing.

He allowed the bases loaded and had 80 pitches and already thrown more in that inning and they just pulled them, which is so annoying.

He was so close to getting out of it and he just didn't, and I kind of just wanted him to battle through.

Give the rookie an opportunity to, you know, to overcome that.

Tyler Holden, it was a bull game, bullpen game as SGL won the IL. Okay, so that was the

Tigers and the Nationals. We have another one with the Red Sox and the Reds, Brennan Bernadino. All right, they had Brian Bayo finish the first game.

So, nothing else there.

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