Cade Smith's top-rated fastball is not the only pitch the rookie reliever has in his bag of tricks.
according to StatCast’s run value metric, but the Guardians rookie says he gets as much of a kick out of using his secondary pitches to put batters away as he does chucking a four-seamer past a hitter.
Smith’s average fastball velocity sits at 95.6 mph and he throws it 66.5% of the time. Opponents are batting .150 against the heater and slugging .225. But the effectiveness of his fastball has made both his splitter and sweeper play up. Smith’s splitter has a 27.5% swing-and-miss rate while his gets sweeper 42.9% wiffs and has a 40% put away percentage.
“Sometimes getting a fastball by a guy is actually the result of how I set it up,” Smith said. “Freezing guy is a result of the two pitches I threw before, and so seeing it all come together in one complete arsenal tells me, ‘OK, this is a major league arsenal.’ It’s not just a single pitch. It is an entire arsenal.”
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