Someone needs to sit his ass down and tell him to stop pitching to contact and nibbling the corners. He's not Greg Maddux and doesn't have the control to do it effectively. In fact, his BB/9 have actually increased when pitching to contact.
He's working the corners and pitching to contact. He's pitching with the exact same philosophy that he did in April and he's getting burned for it.
He needs to stop nibbling.
He was doing it the past 3 starts and now he's back to BABIP pitch to contact ground balls. It's just awful.. If this is Stroman's gameplan he deserves to be crushed.
It would be nice. He's back to working the low corners though, which was the awful April approach.
I'm glad Stro's getting BABIP'd for it as well. He needs to learn that this crap gets read quickly.
I mean, I'd rather see them swinging at strikes instead of watching meatballs, but the patient/selective approach seemed to actually be working a lot for Smoak this season, and that looked very different.