Some interesting findings on Enoli Paredes.

[Terry]

Always fun tracking relievers performance in ST games to see who's the new Feyereisen/Boxberger. Matthew wrote some brilliant articles about long-shot relievers like Bryan Hudson and Jared Koenig. A lowkey underrated signing last year caught my attention after today's game.

Enoli Paredes was an important member of Astros' bullpen back in 2020, which was also his most successful season in the majors (3.63FIP) but even back then control was a bit iffy (4.79BB/9). Sliders had over 40 Whiff% for about 30 innings span across 2020/2021 seasons, but fastballs were inconsistent despite sitting roughly upper-90s. It seems like some changes were made during the offseason. 

The horizontal movement toward arm side is noticeable and quite different than the shape of 4 seam, so I went on to compare with those from 2022 and last season in Triple A. It appears to be a newly-added weapon(2-seam) incorporated since last year, although still labeled as 4-seam on statcast?

Also release point changed slightly as well, as he lowers it a bit in today's game. So far in 4 innings of work (extremely small sample size), he only walked once. Obviously there's no guarantee these changes would lead to his success, but still always quite entertaining to track fringe player's progress. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pitchleague]

I was at the game yesterday and he really impressed me.  At one point, I turned to my wife and said, "This guy will be with the big club at some point this year.  He's throwing seeds!"

[Terry]

12 hours ago, pitchleague said:

I was at the game yesterday and he really impressed me.  At one point, I turned to my wife and said, "This guy will be with the big club at some point this year.  He's throwing seeds!"

Matt Arnold did a great job at stacking up bullpen depth in recent years. I'm excited to see who we could churn out this year!

[Underachiever]

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