What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. More Pitching Podcast from PitcherList.com. My name is

Nick Pollack. Today, we're going to talk about the Cincinnati Reds. So they actually have

their rotation set. They are one of the clearest teams out there of just like, yes, this should be

their five. Maybe they do get one more veteran for some depth because they don't really

have too much at the moment. And that would be really, really upsetting because they're number

five being Chase Burns. And we're going to talk about him in a moment, but first we've got to do

his clearest comp, which is Hunter Green. Hunter Green, of course, just had a phenomenal season with the Reds,

and he pitched not enough innings. There was 150 innings in 2004, where he was great,

and then he went about 110, 112 this past season, but he did incredible things, like, I don't know, throwing two ticks harder

on his four seamer and his slider.

The strike rate on that slider was phenomenal as well.

He has a splitter and a lot of times people want to talk about the splitter.

It does not do much for him.

It is a sub 50% strikeout rate to lefties.

Sorry, strike rate to lefties. It is a sub-50% strikeout rate to lefties. Sorry, strike rate to the lefties.

It is a sub-10% put-away rate to lefties. And you could make an argument that it makes the foresemer better for Hunter Green because the splitter exists. But let's be honest, this is not a pitch

that batter's fear. Really is the issue here is volume.

You know it.

Hunter Green is going to have a 25% to 30% strike rate, if not higher than 30% because of that harder fastball and because the slider is just better and better commanded every

single year.

He also is a little bit better at the vert as well.

And the one positive I do want to say about his injury history is that it's not in his top half, it's in his bottom half.

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