Despite surrendering a couple of walks on Wednesday’s outing, Ron Marinaccio threw a crucial scoreless inning against the Cleveland Guardians in which he struck out two hitters. To finish his outing, he fooled Andrés Giménez with a beautiful changeup on the inner side of the plate.
However, we are not here to talk about Marinaccio’s changeup, which is probably his main out pitch. We are here to discuss how his fastball is becoming more and more important in his repertoire at the expense of the cambio and the sweeper.
Let’s start with the obvious: Marinaccio has been a beast so far.