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Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0
Ventura needs to throw 98-100 or he can't get people out
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How much of it is just regression to the mean, though?
His walk rate is down, K-rate is the same, he's inducing more groundballs, fewer line drives, and fewer flyballs. When he throws a ball outside of the zone and the batter swings, they make contact a lot less often than last year, but they hit stuff inside the zone more often.
His SIERA and xFIP is almost the same as last year, where he outperformed his peripherals.
I haven't seen him save for a few starts (once live). Is he really all that different of a pitcher? They all can't have the horseshoe-filled ass of Chris Young.