[Nestico] Chris Bassitt twirled a solid start against the Yankees, as he allowed just 1 ER in 6.1 IP with 5 K He effectively utilized and commanded his 8 (!) pitch arsenal to generate called strikes and poor contact, leading to an effective outing Just look at all those pitch types!

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1. Just look at the chart for the pitch breaks, if Bassitt’s command is on I don’t know how a hitter can square him up.

2. The usage of the other braking balls outside of the big curve and both armside pitches (splitter and change) is really interesting and feels really important. His stuff last year wasn’t very good, and he outperformed his expecteds by quite a bit, bringing other pitches to the fold could be big for him if the stuff regresses a bit

   I know we hear about how he has “9 pitches and is a genius!” But he was essentially a 3 maybe 4 pitch pitcher with around 70% of his pitches being sinker cutter curve, adding in some others more often would be big

3. Eight pitches, holy cow. Is it too late to nickname him the Octopus? **K**alamari?

4. I hope more pitchers emulate what Bassit is doing, his way is significantly safer for elbows since he goes for craftiness instead of chasing velocity.

   Pitchers are dropping like flies because they keep chasing velocity