Throughout the offseason, I’ll be sharing a series on Tribe Strengths, highlighting one area in which each player excels. Up next is Carlos Carrasco and his dominant slider.
Carlos Carrasco has developed into one of the best starting pitchers in the AL over the past two seasons, and finished fourth in the AL Cy Young voting in 2017. One of the reasons for his development has been his perfecting of his slider, which has turned into one of the most dominant pitches in all of baseball.
In 2017, opposing hitters whiffed on 56.