“How does Cal Quantrill keep doing this?” is a common question among baseball watchers, writers, and probably some coaches. Despite no particularly elite skill, he finished 2021 with a 2.89 ERA and followed it up with a 3.38 ERA season last year.
Other than health, which he’s been blessed with most of the past two seasons, what in the world makes this guy tick?
This seriously isn’t a new question — Merritt Rohlfing wondered it earlier this offseason, I came to the conclusion that he’s basically Joe Flacco in our Year in Review post last November, and just yesterday Pitcher List even dug into it with several prevailing theories.