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Fangraphs on Dylan Bundy


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Great article. The advanced stats seem to indicate that these first four starts weren't a fluke. As long as he continues to adjust as the league adjusts to his new pitch sequences, he'll be our first reliable ace-type pitcher in a really long time.

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This has the be the best first four starts in a season that any Halos pitcher has had in who knows how long, if indeed back to 1961.

The biggest thing with him though, back to the 2019 ASB, is that throwing less heat has enabled him to allow just 11 HRs in his past 99 innings, after allowing 105 HRs in 544 innings preceding the 2019 ASB.  He's basically cut the HRs allowed in half from the 2019 ASB forward. 

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Bundy is pitching like Maddux but how long can he go with a barely 90 mph fastball and relying on umpires to give him every corner of the plate plus a couple inches. For those of you barking for a computer strike zone, this would impact guys like Bundy that want and need that umpire to have more zone on one side, top, bottom, right or left to work the pitch past a batter. 

Like Weaver who started in the mid 90's with his fastball and every successive year lost a mile per hour off it, how many years until Bundy is Weaver/Haren, throwing junk balls and hoping to sneak it by batters? I can see him regressing on a steady plane like Weaver, in a year or so he can't hit 90 and then every year after the numbers drop.

Or maybe Bundy actually hits the weight room instead of the Las Vegas show rooms in the off season and keeps his arm strength up for another five seasons. I wouldn't put a large contract bet on that. 

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Hopefully he doesn't end up like Matthew Boyd.  Tigers really f-ed up not selling high on him last year.  Went into tank the 2nd half (5.51 ERA post-ASB)....was an even bigger drop off post June 2019.  So far this year, he's even worse (10.24 ERA -- i think that is not good).

I say new the Bundy is here to stay, and he won't go Boyd on us.

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54 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Bundy is pitching like Maddux but how long can he go with a barely 90 mph fastball and relying on umpires to give him every corner of the plate plus a couple inches. For those of you barking for a computer strike zone, this would impact guys like Bundy that want and need that umpire to have more zone on one side, top, bottom, right or left to work the pitch past a batter. 

Like Weaver who started in the mid 90's with his fastball and every successive year lost a mile per hour off it, how many years until Bundy is Weaver/Haren, throwing junk balls and hoping to sneak it by batters? I can see him regressing on a steady plane like Weaver, in a year or so he can't hit 90 and then every year after the numbers drop.

Or maybe Bundy actually hits the weight room instead of the Las Vegas show rooms in the off season and keeps his arm strength up for another five seasons. I wouldn't put a large contract bet on that. 

too good to be true disney GIF

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