2021 stats: 62 games, 59.2 innings pitched, 2.72 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 31 saves
Jake McGee throws one pitch. It’s a fastball. A four-seamer. The fastballiest of all the fastballs because there is minimal lateral movement, no wrinkle. It’s just straight and, you know, fast.
McGee threw his four-seamer 791 times in 2021. 90.1% of his pitches. Other than Matt Wisler of the Tampa Bay Rays, no other professional pitcher in the Majors last season relied more on a single pitch.
So much of hitting is timing and–if I may–the basis of pitching is to disrupt this timing.