The saying goes that the hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a baseball. A pitcher will throw the small ball towards the plate at extremely high velocities, and it is the hitter’s job to square up the ball on the barrel of his wooden club and hit it somewhere within a 90 […]
Day: April 18, 2016
Luis Severino needs to slow it down
Fact No. 1: Luis Severino is incredibly tough to hit. Out of the eight stops in which Severino has pitched at least 20 innings in his professional career, he has allowed more than a hit per inning in exactly zero of those. Severino also has more career strikeouts than innings pitched in the minor leagues and […]