Eno Sarris recently wrote an article on the best pitches of 2016. Quite noticeably, the third best pitch in all of baseball last season was Michael Lorenzen’s fastball. His fastball had slightly better results than former Reds flamethrower Aroldis Chapman. Wow.
Sarris calls this pitch a two-seamer, but it’s more of a cutter according to Brooks Baseball. We’ve covered Lorenzen’s new cutter and sinker extensively on this site. To summarize, they are awesome; he is awesome.
And thus, some of us are completely frustrated with the Reds decision to put him in the pen.