I really enjoy watching Antonio Senzatela when he takes the mound. The 26-year-old righty is one of the last of a dying breed in the Majors: the pitch-to-contact starter. Those kinds of hurlers used to be really common across MLB, but as deep, hard-throwing bullpens have become common, and as the art of pitching has quickly transformed into the science of bat-missing, the pitchers who could be described as “contact managers” are almost extinct at the highest levels of play.
And in 2020’s shortened season, Senzatela really made the approach work. He went 5-3 and posted an excellent 3.