Jack Parkman

That's not true actually, as Zack Grienke throws 89 mph fastballs and 87 mph changeups. He has lost velocity on his fastball over the years but his changeup velocity has stayed the same. That's actually pretty common. The same thing happened to John Danks, whose changeup was his best pitch but an 84 mph changeup when you're throwing 88 is different than an 84 mph changeup when you're throwing 94. Generally you want an 8-11 mph separation between the fastball and change. Right now Crochet has it at 4-5. He has said that he's working on his change grip because(according to Crochet himself his change is 87-88 mph during bullpens but during games it ends up 92-93 mph) that would be a more appropriate velocity gap. However, pitchers that throw upper 90s can get away with 90-91 mph changeups.

I swear Moncada gets screwed on more balls than anyone I've ever seen.

It hasn't been good all year. it has turned into more of a loopy curveball than the sharp breaker he had last year.

Crochet isn't fooling anyone.

I know Leming posts here but idk what his UN is. Credit to him.

The babip gods are making up for hang wiffums.

Something seems a little off with Crochet this year. He's not getting the horizontal movement on his slider he usually does. It now looks more like a loopy curveball. I wonder if whatever he's doing is affecting his velo and control a bit as well. Go to the video room and see if there's something up.

Hall of Fame baseball person.

Mahomes owns a piece of the Royals. Bought in after signing his $500M contract.

Stiever blows.

I think they should give Crochet an inning or two in this game.

Is Cease moving to the Bullpen or is Giolito going on the IL?

LOL.

You're probably right, but imo Cease has improved his command enough to be a reliever but not a starter. He still doesn't throw enough strikes to be a starter.

I wonder how much longer before Kopech and Cease are swapped?

I'd like to see some of that 20-30 steal speed he supposedly has.

Yeah really........

That tail Kopech has on his fastball is nutzo.

Moncada might have gotten it going a bit from an average standpoint but he's still not hitting anything particularly hard.

I wanna know what's going on with Giolito, Kopech and Crochet's velocity this year. With Giolito I'm pretty sure it's not on purpose but I think it might be with Crochet and Kopech.

He's also the backup SS/2B, but yeah.....Dickman can handle those duties.

Rangers fans be like:

Even though it sucks that Eloy is injured, at least we found out that Yermin can hit and Vaughn can play an adequate LF.