I had meant to post something on this a while back but it slipped my mind and I never got around to it. But after doing research on Jake Arrieta’s rise to dominance, a nagging feeling germinated in the base reaches of my addled brain. I was looking at pitch usage, location, velocity, all the while neglecting what the man had told me with his own keystrokes.
In one gloriously cryptic and flippant tweet, Arrieta revealed not only the secret to his success, but also the mystery of what, exactly, is under his beard.
@JArrieta34 What's under your beard?