I want the team to feel it can depend on me in any game, any leverage, any situation to come in there and do my job. By JOON LEE October 19, 2021, 11:19 PM BOSTON - Red Sox pitcher Nathan Eovaldi took two steps toward the dugout when his 1-2 curveball against Houston Astros catcher Jason Castro landed in the glove of catcher Christian Vazquez close to the top-right corner of the strike zone. I’m going to go out there and do my best any time. That said, his high-octane heater the centerpiece of a repertoire that also comprises a splitter, curveball, slider, and cutter did still rank in the 70th percentile for velocity. So for example, he’s given up 5 barrels on 324 pitches of his 4-seam fastball in the last 2 months which equates to about 1.54 of the time. “I’m representing the Red Sox, whether it’s money or not. Nate Eovaldi’s pitch data for the last two months. “Regardless of the money, I hold myself accountable to go out there and perform my best just because they gave me a jersey,” he said. While there is some satisfaction to be taken in performing to the expectations of a landmark contract, Eovaldi examines his career-best season (to date) through a different lens. He has been the pitcher the Sox hoped he would be when they signed the righthander to a four-year, $68 million deal coming off his spectacular performance in the 2018 postseason. “The fact that he can post every five days and keep his stuff, it’s a testament of who he is, the adjustments he has made,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. In a year in which pitcher workloads represented cause for anxiety, Eovaldi has logged 133 innings - his most since 2015. Jim Davis/Globe Staffīeyond the most diverse pitch mix of his career, Eovaldi has featured something else in 2021 that he rarely has possessed: health. Nathan Eovaldi remains on pace for the best season of his career. Plawecki, who caught Jacob deGrom, Zack Wheeler, and Noah Syndergaard with the Mets and Shane Bieber with Cleveland, suggests that Eovaldi’s stuff ranks with anyone else he’s caught. The steps he’s taken in the last couple years, he’s just figured out exactly what he can do.”įor catchers, Eovaldi offers a rich array of possibilities. what’s turned that elite stuff into an elite pitcher. While he has a fastball that can touch 97 mph, his secondary pitches, such as his curveball and slider. He’s realized the velo alone doesn’t make him good. Another challenge for Pivetta is his pitching repertoire. Rotowire Eovaldi said Saturday that a 'mechanical issue' was the root cause in a decrease in velocity during his last start, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News reports. He spins his slider off the plate for chases by righties, works below the zone with a high-velocity offering (splitter), and disrupts timing by throwing a curveball both in and out of the zone. He works to both edges of the plate with his cutter. He has a baseline pitch that he can command to spots - and most importantly, the top of the zone (fastball). Nathan Eovaldi gets a hand in the dugout after he was removed from a game earlier this season.
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