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Reds Tyler Mahle changing up his pitch arsenal for 2019

When Tyler Mahle was in the minor leagues he was dominant. And at times that word wasn’t strong enough to describe his game. Like the time in which he threw a perfect game in Double-A that required all of 88 pitches. Or the year before that when only a hit batter kept him from a perfect game in Daytona.

But that dominance came in a way that wasn’t always something that seemed like it would fully translate to the Major Leagues. Despite dominating in the Minor Leagues during the 2017 season between Double-A and Triple-A where he posted an ERA of 2.