Nick Anderson was one of baseball’s best kept secrets in the first half of the season. A 29 year old rookie who had been an undrafted signee hardly seems like a promising addition. Anderson had come up through the Twins system, and was traded in the off-season as a roster crunch casualty before debuting this year with the Marlins.
He caught some attention with gaudy strikeout numbers, but like most things Marlins, was ignored by the baseball world at large. What he’s doing now is making it impossible to ignore him any longer.
In this article I’ll look under the hood to see what he’s throwing and why it’s working.