Towards the end of April, Ken Giles looked like an alarmingly diminished form of his 2014 self. At the time, I wrote about his decreased average fastball velocity, the corresponding increase in the quantity of contact he allowed, and a small sample size horrendous walk-rate. Fortunately for the Phillies, their presumed future closer has been gradually regaining his form over the past month and a half.
While his velocity hasn’t fully returned to 2014 levels, it’s been steadily creeping back up each month.
According to BrooksBaseball, his fastball has averaged 97.