Some further digging on my last piece about Enoli Paredes

[Terry]

As I mentioned last time his release point changed a bit, which might be beneficial to his control issues. Here's the horizontal and vertical point for the past five years.

As you can see, he lowered his release point and moved toward third base year by year. And overall zone rate went from :

2020-2021(MLB): 48.2%

2022: 46.7%

2023: 43.1%

2024: 51.1% this year

Also I mentioned that there seems to be some arm side run pitches this spring training, turns out it already showed up during 2022 MiLB season. Here's the full plot from the past few years after sorting out the pitch movement raw data from the past few seasons on statcast. (Left: glove side; Right: arm side) (2020-2021 MLB)

(2023 MiLB)

(2024 MiLB)

There's always some cut action on his fastball hence the unimpressive IVB, and from 2022 some arm side action pitches were added. Separations on some of these fastballs reached 20 inches even though there were still labeled as 4 seam(which I think should be seen as 3 pitches). Also the adjustment of his release point toward third base aided his control of fastballs in small sample sizes so far(shifted his focus to inner-high/outside-high against RHH/LHH where he got most whiffs from for past few years). Both offerings generate over 40 whiff% in triple A this year, super excited to see if he can replicate his success!