A full 81.6% of the pitches Wander Suero threw in 2020’s 60-game COVID campaign were cutters, against which opposing hitters put up a combined .230 AVG, and with which he recorded 18 of his 24 strikeouts (though he did, like many pitchers last year, lose velocity, going from 92.9 MPH AVG on his cutter in 2019 to 91.0 MPH last season).
Suero, 29, talked a few years back about developing his go-to pitch by watching one of the best to ever throw a cutter, Mariano Rivera.
“I’d like to say my cutter was a pitch that sort of came naturally to me,” Suero explained at the time.