Yesterday I wrote about Blake Snell's debut, and analyzed his "stuff" using the PITCHf/x data. I found that he had a remarkable rising fastball, a very slow curve, and useful but not necessarily overwhelming sliders and changeups that slotted in at velocity points between the two.
I thought that was going to be it about Snell for a little while, but alert reader and DRaysBay writer Bradley Neveu noticed something in the Baseball America writeup of Snell' start that merits a closer look:
Snell, wearing No. 4, threw 12 first-pitch strikes, all catching the Yankees’ looking.