Chris Archer entered this season like he enters every season: ready to flash a new and improved changeup.
Archer is able to manipulate his slider into distinct, hard and slow versions of the pitch, which gives him a three pitch mix, but flashing a solid changeup may be just what he needs to cross over from ace to elite.
Last season Archer showed a change just 8% of the time, almost exclusively to left-handed hitters. A righty only saw Archer’s change 8 times throughout all of 2017.
Now fast forward to last night: would we see the change?