or, “What can Luke Weaver learn from Michael Wacha?”
Earlier this week in part one of this three part series, we identified a group of pitchers with similar pitch shape to the Rays new starter Michael Wacha. That group is Brandon Bielak, Max Scherzer, Griffin Canning, Luke Weaver, Tony Gonsolin, Zach Plesac, and Lance Lynn.
In part two, we dug into the characteristics of this group, in particular their unusual rates of reverse splits, in search of...