In his first two save opportunities of the 2016 season Roberto Osuna has performed as advertised, but his arsenal has not gone without a couple interesting tweaks.
According to data from Brooks Baseball, Osuna has added a cutter that he threw once in game one at nearly 93 miles-per-hour.
Below, you will see Osuna’s 2015-16 slider velocity graphed in bright red. His lone cutter from 2016 is graphed in dark red in the upper right-hand corner.
The slider velocity is included for a reason here, too. As you can see from the sample size of his first six sliders, they have travelled at a velocity nearly 3.