New York Yankees Editorial: The Evolution of Eovaldi

Quickly, which New York Yankees pitcher sit in the Top 4 in all of baseball in velocity of his fastball? If you answered CC Sabathia, you are still living in 2010. It’s not Masahiro Tanaka, whose velocity has been noticeably a bit off since that pesky elbow injury. The answer is Nathan Eovaldi.

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MLB.com recently posed an excellent question. How is someone who has such a dominant fastball so darn hittable? MLB’s Statcast recently tracked Eovaldi’s fastball and found that in terms of velocity, the 25-year old righty throws harder and faster than Matt Harvey. That’s right, folks, Eovaldi, who averages 96.49 has a better fastball than The Dark Knight, whose sits at…