Baseball Breakfast Bites #13
Some delicious baseball morsels to start your morning off right
First and foremost, I just want to take a second to say how much I appreciate you guys. As I type this I have just surpassed 400 subscribers in only a couple of months. When I started this I had big goals, but this has surpassed even the one-year goal I had set for myself. So for that, I am incredibly appreciative of you guys.
Now to get into some more baseball-related things. Spring training has been kinda fun, huh? Like the whole throwing the ball and hitting it part? With some strikeouts in there too? Honestly, this is maybe the stupidest thing I’ve ever written right now but you know what, hell ya.
Hello to those of you who are new here! These baseball breakfast bites articles are something I do weekly at the minimum and try very hard to do at least twice a week. They’re not anything groundbreaking, it’s essentially whatever baseball-related topics are kicking around in my brain at the moment. I mix in a little thought outside of the baseball world here and there as well. All in all, it’s just simply some easy reading to help start your day off right.
I saw the Roki Sasaki splitter and I pray the baseball world is ready for the nightmare that is about to be unleashed upon them
Absolutely disgusting. Pure filth. Insane. Otherworldly. Whatever words you want to use to describe, I feel exactly the same way. He threw it 18 times, it was swung at eight times, and it was missed seven of those eight times. It had an average RPM of 518. Splitters become more and more effective the less rotation the pitcher gets on the ball. To put it into perspective, some of the most devastating splitters in baseball belong to Logan Gilbert, Bryce Miller, and Justin Martinez. They all generate 640, 912, and 851 RPM on their splitters. Now combine that with the fact that Sasaki hit 99 MPH with his fastball and has easily topped 100 in the past…he’s about to be must-watch TV every time he takes the mound.
Cristopher Sanchez’s velocity is WAY up this spring and it’s something I can’t help but get excited about
He was one of the biggest surprises in both the baseball and fantasy baseball world last season. Randomly deciding to throw 180 innings with a sub-3.5 ERA and a low enough WHIP to make things interesting. Now he’s shown up this spring throwing straight GAS. In his 2.2 innings of work on Sunday his sinker averaged 96.9 MPH (+2.4), changeup averaged 85.1 MPH (+2.4), and slider averaged 86.9 MPH (+2.5). For a guy whose only real flaw last season was struggling to strike hitters out, this velocity bump may go a long way toward solving that problem. If it does, he’s going to be a must-roster player in many fantasy drafts.
My opinion is changing about Corbin Carroll and I’m getting awfully close to being fully back in on him for this season
If you read my fantasy baseball cheat sheet you’d know that I’m out on Carroll this season. Or…was. I know he had been dealing with some shoulder issues, but despite that, he had a 162-game stretch where he hit like 11 home runs. A number I just can’t commit to if I’m going to be drafting you that high. What I wasn’t expecting was for Carroll to then show up at spring training and just start dropping bombs in the Arizona desert. If he really truly is fully healthy, and he truly has seen his full power return, Carroll is now on 30/60 watch and I’m all the way back in. If you’re up in the draft and he’s available and you’re wondering whether or not he should be your pick…he should.
I watched the movie “Don’t Tell A Soul” from 2020 the other day and it was easily one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last year
It stars Rainn Wilson along with a few other semi-recognizable actors and is about two kids who rob a house to try and get some money for their mother’s medical bills. After robbing the house, they think they’re in the clear only to run into a security guard (Rainn Wilson) who chases them through the woods only to fall into an abandoned well. The kids struggle with the idea of saving him and having him turn them in for stealing all the money or leaving him to die. There are a ton of twists and turns, it’s shot beautifully, and it has this constantly ominous element to it that keeps you on the edge of your seat. If these are your types of movies, I cannot recommend it enough.
