Two, and only two pitchers threw at least 100 innings at the big league level during the 2022 season and owned groundball rates between 53.4% and 54.5%: National League Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara of the Miami Marlins, and Graham Ashcraft of the Cincinnati Reds.
You know what that means, right?
Technically, it means I cherry-picked some hyperfocused statistics from a FanGraphs leaderboard, but the overriding theme here is one that hopefully has some legs. Alcantara (53.4%) and Ashcraft (54.5%) ranked 8th and 9th, respectively, among the 140 pitchers who logged at least 100 IP last year, and while there’s nothing on its own that suggests that Ashcraft is the same caliber pitcher as Alcantara yet, profiling at all similar to him is absolutely a positive endorsement.