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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
The pace he's at right now - 3.6 BB/9 - is still high-ish, but he's also pairing it with a 16.2 K/9. That's a combination that would play up well at the back end of a pen, if he can hold those ratios.
That K/9 is crazy high, but his stuff is also crazy, crazy good.
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Yeah, like I said, for most guys you have to use BB/9 as a sort of proxy for strike-zone command.
Not him - you can take it at face value. Some guys can get their BB/9 down and still be wild in the zone and suck but Staumont doesn't need to worry about that. He truly just needs to walk fewer guys and the rest will take care of itself.
Throw it at the damn middle. Few guys can get away with deciding "I'm just gonna throw this in the zone" without getting absolutely blasted. It's incredible how easy it is for most pitchers to just throw a strike - it's those pitches on the black they can't execute.
Well Staumont won't need to. You'd like to see a 3rd pitch but it's not necessary if he can just get 2/3 of the fastballs and curveballs he throws to end up in the zone. That'll be enough to get some chases and drive that walk rate down to manageable levels.
He has silly potential.