After investigating which Yankee owned the most devastating fastball in 2020, I’ve decided to turn my attention to the team’s collection of off-speed pitches. With a more tightly grouped field of competitors, I narrowed my selection to the five pitches most deserving of competing for a chance to earn the coveted honor of being named the Yankees’ best off-speed. With all due respect to Adam Ottavino’s slider, he hung that thing over the middle far too often to garner consideration for his performance in 2020. Better luck next year, Adam!
Jonathan Holder’s stuff is nice—his cutter and slider both display sharp break in the horizontal and vertical planes, respectively, but he can’t throw either consistently enough for strikes to merit consideration—an analysis proffered by Peter Brody in his recent post mortem.