00:00Jacob Mizorowski last time out against the St. Louis Cardinals was untouchable yet again.
00:05Jacob Mizorowski in his last five starts has allowed a whopping one earned run.
00:12It happened last night on Monday night against the St. Louis Cardinals.
00:17He punched out 12 and in his last 31 and a third innings, there are 11 hits against him.
00:24He's punched out 49 and walked six. That's a 0.29 ERA and a FIP fielding independent pitching of 0
00:32.52.
00:34Mizorowski is the strikeout leader in Major League Baseball and his season total is exactly at 100.
00:40There's a number that I want to point out as well after you kind of wax poetic about Mizorowski and
00:46his gaudy strikeout numbers.
00:47But, dude, this guy is on a heater of all heaters at this moment, and he has to be looking
00:53like the front runner for National League.
00:55This is such a fun race. This is going to be a wild one.
00:58But, yeah, at this point, how do you go anywhere else when you have somebody that basically walks out on
01:07the mound and looks like a closer for six to seven plus innings?
01:13I don't think we've ever really seen anything like it. So it continues to be something I feel like no
01:21matter how much we talk about it, needs to get more airtime.
01:24Because I feel like if you are not, no matter what team you're a fan of, if you're not circling
01:28Mizorowski starts and sitting down and watching them as a baseball fan,
01:31you're missing out because we really haven't seen anything like this from a start.
01:34It's the same point where Mason Miller, anytime he's about to come in, I see it's the ninth inning and
01:38the Padres are up.
01:39I'm flipping it over there, right? Because I don't want to miss the opportunity to watch that.
01:43With Mizorowski, you get to see this guy come back out of the dugout and do it again.
01:46Then come back out of the dugout and do it again.
01:47And like, you might say, oh, it's kind of crazy to compare it to me.
01:49This stuff is pretty much right there with Mason Miller, which is crazy because he's doing that while turning lineups
01:54over.
01:56I think it's a combination of things.
01:57You have a freak level talent, like a rare, rare, rare talent we've almost never seen,
02:04put in the perfect organization to maximize that freak level talent.
02:08We've seen what Kyle Harrison, a unique talent, has been able to maximize in the Brewers organization.
02:13You put an alien in with the Brewers and we're seeing what happens now all of a sudden.
02:20Yeah, dude.
02:21I mean, Mizorowski, the couple of numbers that I guess are pertinent to me,
02:2757 pitches at 100 miles an hour or above yesterday.
02:31There's no other starter that even comes close to doing this.
02:34And occasionally we see starter grab 100 miles an hour, right?
02:36Like we see Hunter Green do that when he's healthy and on the mound for Cincinnati.
02:40We see Uri Perez do that with Miami.
02:42We see other guys do that.
02:43You know, Scoble runs it up to 100 miles an hour.
02:4657 times over the course of one game where he punches out 12 against St. Louis,
02:51who has been a good team, mind you.
02:52That is unheard of from a starting pitcher.
02:55Nobody can sustain that velocity for that long.
02:57But here we are with the Miz.
02:59Brewers just put this out.
03:00Jacob Mizorowski currently leads Major League Baseball in punchouts at 100,
03:04in strikeout percentage at 40.3%, in strikeout minus walk at 33%,
03:11strikeouts per nine at 14, and batting average against at $1.52.
03:16The thing that jumps out to me here with Mizorowski is this guy is walking fewer than three hitters per
03:22nine innings.
03:22Last year, in 66 innings of work, he walked 31 guys.
03:27In 64 innings of work so far this year, he's walked 19 hitters.
03:33I was never expecting him to be this in the strike zone and this dominant.
03:38But you want to talk about trusting your stuff?
03:40That's exactly what's happening right now with Mizorowski.
03:43Yes, but I also think, like, he probably trusted it in AA, too.
03:47He just couldn't put it there all the time.
03:49And so the fact that that, now that he can, and you have the edge of, like,
03:54well, I definitely trust it.
03:55Like, he doesn't have to worry about missing over the middle.
03:57So he could just really focus on throwing it down the middle.
04:01But that was going to be my biggest takeaway, too, Jack.
04:03It's like, last five starts, 71% strike rate across his arsenal.
04:08Are you kidding me?
04:09For a guy with those levers and how long-limbed he is and how hard he throws and how much
04:15everything moves,
04:16I don't want to take anything away from Mizorowski.
04:18I just want to shout out Chris Hook.
04:20Because we talk about a lot of pitching coaches, and I don't know if Chris Hook gets enough love, too.
04:24To do what he's done and what the Brewers' org has done with Kyle Harrison, who's completely different from Jacob
04:29Mizorowski,
04:29who's completely different from Quinn Priester, and all of these guys are maximized, I think is so cool.
04:34But this is, like, the final boss experiment here, where you have a Juco player who throws a million miles
04:41an hour with crazy stuff,
04:42and it's flailing limbs everywhere when I watched him in high A and double A, to now look like a
04:48polished arm
04:49that still has the freak stuff but can put it where he wants, at least generally within the quadrant,
04:57is just outrageous stuff.
04:59Because if Jacob Mizorowski isn't giving you free passes, how the heck are you going to beat him?
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