Remember back in March when we were wondering if Kyle Freeland could come back and be the K-Free we all know and love? And we wondered who would round out the starting rotation? We can start talking about those things again! It’s exciting.
In trying to find a silver lining of the delay to the 2020 season, it’s given Freeland more time to repeat his new pitching motion, which has ditched the famed “flamingo pause.” It’s not easy to change muscle memory and ingrain new form, but that’s exactly what Freeland has been working on during baseball’s pause, as he told Thomas Harding on Thursday:
“Once I realized this was going to be a lot longer than we thought, I devoted my time to making sure my mechanics are as clean as possible to continue my work on that, to continue to work on my pitches in bullpens and get them as ready as possible.