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Blue Jays (Gausman) vs Rockies (Freeland): 8/6/25, 3:10pm

Brock Beauchamp

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Omar
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This series will forever be known as The Denver Massacre. Final butchers bill over the three game series:  45 runs scored, 63 hits (mlb record) only 6 runs allowed. Nothing like a trip to Colorad

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Lmao you've been doom posting all year and even yesterday you were calling us Atkins "nut huggers" (all of you Debbie Downers are obsessed with Atkins' genitals and post about it constantly btw 🤢). 

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5 hours ago, sliderguy35 said:

i'm sneaky-in on freeland as a guy to go get this offseason (probably wouldn't cost much since he's an expiring at the end of the year unless he throws 170+ innings). added a new slider that stuff models love & the curveball is already a plus pitch. he's currently running the highest swinging strike rate of his career even if the K% isn't showing it.

his fastball has above average shape away from coors from a low-slot & he commands it really well. he throws his fastball down-in-the-zone a majority of the time even with 2 strikes so it feels like there's hidden potential for more strikeouts/whiffs here as well if he starts spotting it up.

it also seems like the rockies haven't caught onto the seam-shifted wake changeup wave that's been taking the league by storm the last few years. freeland throws his sinker at about 83% spin efficiency which is right in the SSW sweet-spot to get good late movement, but throws his changeup with 98% efficiency so it's missing out. a grip / cue change (i.e "cut your changeup a bit more") would probably be all it takes to unlock it into a usable weapon. 

would not be shocked at all if he ends up in a smarter org than the rockies (any other org) next year or once his contact expires in 2027 and ends up as a sub 4 ERA arm over 150 innings

Who are you?  This is excellent analysis.  Kudos

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Gausman spamming the slider against righties. I get mixing it up but I'd probably rather see him get beat on his two best pitches with men on.

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Just now, Orgfiller said:

Gausman spamming the slider against righties. I get mixing it up but I'd probably rather see him get beat on his two best pitches with men on.

Nice to mix it up when slider is working but don’t think it’s quite consistent enough and sometimes just gets him into trouble. 

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