A college picture of the the Oak-sized Fireballer
When you are the only one to achieve something out of 400,000, that is something that should grab one’s attention.
So I read this, and it grabbed mine, written by Jacob Resnick in a tweet:
“Bryce Montes de Oca threw a pitch (yesterday) 101 mph with 21 inches of horizontal break.
Almost 400,000 fastballs were thrown in the Majors last year. None matched those numbers.”
Contemplate that. If you saw the video that Resnick posted, the 101 MPH pitch veered towards the right hand batters box rather severely. Like a 101 MPH knuckleball.
My first thought was, if that had been in the strike zone, good luck hitting that.
Get better control of that and hits allowed will be a very rare consequence.
When I saw the pitch, it made complete sense to me why, in his pro career, Bryce has faced 406 regular season batters and allowed only 1 home run.
One can only pray that he puts it all together. Extreme dominance could be the outcome.
This spring, so far, so good…2 scoreless, hitless innings, 2 walks, 4 Ks. Typical Bryce stuff.
6 comments:
We are all praying Tom, that this kid can get control of those pitches. There has never been much patience for wildness in New York, from the days of Nolan Ryan to the present. Fortunately, there is a guy on the roster named Edwin Diaz that struggled with control problems on high velocity pitches in the 2019 season and then figured it out. Maybe he can give Bryce a few pointers.
I got one
Throw where the catcher's mitt is
If it clicks for the kid our Mets will be even more loaded!
Interesting note…headed into todays action, Mark Vientos had the most at bats in all of baseball. Remarkable.
Catchers should wear one of those knuckleballers’ catcher mitts when Bryce is hurling.
Has the been an unusually high # of PBs by his catchers in the minors?
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