To be clear, there are two reasons why I am writing about this:
- I want to see a change in pitching philosophy top to bottom in the organization
- I don’t want to write about the major league team right now, it’s too depressing
With the shift to Matt Quatraro and the gang, the biggest expectation was that pitchers would be handled differently by doing things like having catchers would set up in the zone and emphasizing first pitch strikes up to and including paying players for giving up homers on first pitch strikes.