"Yes, Yesavage is only 22-years-old but he's already got some of the best stuff in the majors and it has given hitters a ton of fits over his first five big league outings, with three in the regular season and two in the postseason, and he's doing it on basically a three pitch mix. Yesavage has relied mostly on his four seamer, slider and split finger, with the split being a deadly pitch for the opposition."
"He's used that split finger on 26.4% of his throws and hitters just don't know what to do with it as he has a 57.1 whiff rate on that pitch and an xBA of .145 and an actual batting average of just .111. Only two hits have come off that pitch against the ten strikeouts he's racked up. Yesavage's splitter is also generating a hard hit rate of only 37.5%, compared to 57.1% on his four seamer and 76.5% on his slider."
"The only blemish on that pitch so far has been the home run Yesavage gave up to Julio Rodriguez in Game 2 of the ALCS. He started the at-bat with a slider that was called a strike on the outside corner. That was followed up with a splitter middle away that Rodriguez whiffed on. He threw another splitter on the next pitch which went in the dirt that didn't cause Rodriguez to chase."
Trey Yesavage, 22, climbed five professional levels to make his MLB debut a year after being drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays. He will start Game 6 of the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners at Rogers Centre. Yesavage has shown elite stuff across five big-league outings, relying on a three-pitch mix: a four-seamer, slider, and a highly effective split-finger. He uses the splitter on 26.4% of pitches, yielding a 57.1% whiff rate, an xBA of .145 and an actual batting average of .111. The splitter produces a 37.5% hard-hit rate, far lower than his other pitches. His lone notable mistake was a home run surrendered to Julio Rodriguez in Game 2.
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