Game 135, Mariners at Athletics
Mike Leake vs. Mike Fiers, 7:05pm
It’s been a while since the A’s were buyers at the deadline, but they were able to swing a deal for Mike Fiers last month, and the steady, unremarkable Fiers has excelled. Jeff Sullivan wrote a post at FG about his tweaked approach. He’s not throwing harder, or a new pitch. He’s just taken his high-FB and curve approach and…turned it up to 11. Now his high FB is *super* high. It’s always kind of weird to see what changes bring results for pitchers, though of course all of this could just be noise.
What we know about Fiers won’t change as a result of any changes like a higher high FB. He gets lots of fly balls, runs a low BABIP and yields plenty of HRs. Let’s see some HRs, M’s.
1: Haniger, RF
2: Span, LF
3: Cano, 2B
4: Cruz, DH
5: Seager, 3B
6: Healy, 1B
7: Herrmann, C
8: Maybin, CF
9: Gordon, SS
SP: Leake
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Will the real Mike Leake please step forward.
Marc’s words have not fallen on deaf ears.
Why do they pitch to eie that hit the snot out of the ball? Make him limp to first base or intentionally walk. He has a lower chance to score from first. Trout, Lowrie, take your pick.
I meant “people” instead of “eie”….darn phone.