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Eyeball Scout: Wheat/Chaff Updates

Today's "wheat/chaff" report does not necessarily assign wheatness or chaffosity to players, but rather examines parts of a player's game that the Eyeball Scout deems wheaty or chafful. (What, did you think the glass was chaff empty?)

Doolittle's velocity is back, but a couple aspects of his last outing (Friday night against the Giants) bear monitoring. The first is that Giants hitters fouled off quite a few pitches, one of the reasons Doolittle's pitch count rose to 38 in 2 IP despite throwing 28 strikes. Doolittle is a "swing and miss" pitcher and some of the balls fouled off were pitches that have historically missed bats.