"Los Angeles Dodgers closer Tanner Scott has a 4.44 ERA this season. In just his third game back after elbow inflammation landed him on the injured list for over a month, Scott entered the game up 4-1 on the Arizona Diamondbacks in the eighth inning. With two outs logged, Scott allowed back-to-back singles and a three-run Corbin Carroll home run to tie things up."
"Last year, Scott was the best in baseball (with at least 250 batters faced) in terms of average exit velocity from his offerings. Batters were only hitting the ball 84.3 mph on average against him, but that number has now grown to 91 mph, putting him in just the 11th percentile across MLB. Scott's swing-and-miss rate was highly revered last season, getting batters to whiff 32.7 percent of the time, good for the 92nd percentile across MLB."
Tanner Scott, the Los Angeles Dodgers closer, has a 4.44 ERA this season and returned from over a month on the injured list due to elbow inflammation. He surrendered a three-run Corbin Carroll home run that erased a 4-1 lead and marked his eighth blown save. Scott's metrics have deteriorated from last season: average exit velocity against rose from 84.3 mph to 91 mph, swing-and-miss rate dropped from 32.7% to 27.3%, barrel rate nearly doubled, ground ball rate fell nearly 10%, and fastball percentile fell from 91st to 83rd. Four-seam opposing average rose from .134 to .239.
Read at Dodgers Nation
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]