The Cleveland Indians officially sent down Cody Anderson this afternoon, but we all saw this coming. During his six major league starts, the 25-year-old allowed 29 runs in just 32 innings. Even his strikeout to walk ratio unimpressed, and fielder independent statistics gave negative reviews of his work.
What went wrong? Just before the season started, Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs noted that Cody Anderson looked like Matt Harvey. He looked at a start during Spring Training for which PITCHf/x data was available, and Anderson’s fastball posted similar speed and movement to Harvey.