How is the Rays Pitching Development So Good? | Taj Bradley Breakdown
The Rays are one of the best pitching development organizations in baseball. And they have a tendency to do certain things with their pitchers. One of the most common is to push cutter/slider velocity up. It's one of the ways they helped Taj Bradley emerge as an ace.
This video was recorded and edited before Bradley's start on July 31. So he is no longer July's ERA leader... Boooo!
In this video, we'll dig into what the Rays do well, what they changed with Taj Bradley, and how it all relates to Stuff+.
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0:00 Taj Bradley's Dominance
0:30 How Stuff+ Fails... and Succeeds
2:21 Bradley's New Cutter
4:19 Rays Pitching Philosophy
6:56 Bradley's Splitter Usage Tweak
9:02 League Trend: Count Leverage
9:49 Why Do Stuff+ and Taj Bradley Matter?