How did Alex Meyer look yesterday?

[Chuck]

I missed the game so I wasn't able to see him shutdown the Blue Jays for 5 innings, fanning 7. 

[Brent Maguire]

Meyer looked awesome. Gubi kept saying Charles Nagy worked a ton with Meyer this past week on his mechanics and it showed. Not sure if he just had a dead arm last Tuesday but he sat 92-95 that night, compared to 94-98 yesterday. Tons of movement on that fastball too. He looked way more comfortable throwing the slider too. Had an impressive stretch early where he struck out Donaldson, Edwin, Bautista and Martin in succession, all ending on sliders. I'm a believer in him as a shutdown reliever rather than a back end starter but he looked great yesterday. 

He does need to improve his change up, that's for sure. Pitch has no meaningful movement and looks way too firm at times. If that becomes a weapon, I can potentially seeing him work out as a starter. It's easy to see why Eppler wanted Meyer, however. Power fastball/slider combo, big size, generates weak contact and grounders. He's a big x-factor for the Angels going forward. 

[Troll Daddy]

Meyer is still a work in progress but damn

[totdprods]

If he can stay healthy and stay in control of his stuff, he could be a really, really good starter. I think at the minimum he can step into the pen now and be an asset and an above-average reliever. Nolasco is outpitching Santiago by a mile. Looking like a pretty good trade.

[Blarg]

Looks like Nagy is earning his pay. 

[Make Angels Great Again]

Looks like another Richards, but more raw.

[VariousCrap]

53 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

I missed the game so I wasn't able to see him shutdown the Blue Jays for 5 innings, fanning 7. 

 

Why couldn't you watch?  Were you too busy watching the Rams beat your Seahawks?

 

[Angel Oracle]

27 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Looks like Nagy is earning his pay. 

And Eppler

[meat]

I was sitting right behind home plate yesterday, and the ball 'explodes' out of this guys hand.  The Jays lineup was not comfortable in the box, and he made a few veteran hitters look silly.  I like him.

[Chuck]

38 minutes ago, VariousCrap said:

 

Why couldn't you watch?  Were you too busy watching the Rams beat your Seahawks?

 

Yes.

The Rams are guaranteed one win a season and it's against my Seahawks in their crib, for whatever reason. 

Enjoy your one win on the season.

[Docwaukee]

fastball and change have really good arm side movement.  Especially the change up.  He just throws it too hard.  In fact, it's more like a cut fastball the moves toward rhers without much drop.  Could be something to develop that would start off the plate and cut in under the hands on lefties.  His slurve is nasty.  According to Brooks baseball, his release point for all three pitches was nearly identical.  Swing and miss top of the rotation stuff.  

The one thing I've noticed about Nagy so far is that he seems to being having his greatest effect in terms of sequencing.  Guys are throwing their fastball less often.  Maybe that's a consequence of having guy who don't really have a good fastball, but the way Shoe and Nolasco have attacked hitters has changed.  Maybe it's the advanced metrics team picking up some info as well.  

[Kevin]

He looked like he was about 6'9 and 225 lbs.

 

Oh and he pitched awesome.

[ksangel]

Read where Meyer and Nagy looked at tapes of Meyer's pitching at Univ. of Kentucky and saw that his arm slot was higher - so he worked on that and was much more comfortable.

Agree with Troll Daddy....DAMN !!! He could be a gem.  Richards, Shoe, Skaggs, Meyer and Nolasco could be a solid 1-5 in 2017.

Also Gubi talked a lot of seeing Meyer go to an abbreviated windup to control his mechanics...pitched better out of the stretch than full wind up.

[Kevin]

It's way too soon to tell but Eppler and the decisions he has made are starting to grow on me. With the way this season has gone, there really isn't anywhere to go but up.

[eligrba]

Langston was stating that he thought that Meyer should have kept pitching.  It was funny to hear him question the "pitch count/kid gloves" approach to young pitchers.  I was a bit surprised to hear him be so opinionated.

[tomsred]

Easy for Langston to say that, but we don't need to risk injury to a potential 2016 starter at this point.  The guy is not that far removed from a long DL stint.  He is getting enough innings to learn what he needs to learn.

[Angel Oracle]

80 pitch count limit is fine at this point.   Up it to 85 next time, and 90 for his last start of the 2016 season.

[ten ocho recon scout]

7 hours ago, Blarg said:

Looks like Nagy is earning his pay. 

Meanwhile, Nagy is making babies?

[Angel Oracle]

We truly won't know how successful Nagy can be until a couple of years down the road.

Even Bud Black didn't see true results until his 3rd season in 2002.

[Erstad Grit]

Nolasco has been very good too. PLUS the Twins threw in cash? Damn Eppler!