00:00Cy Young race in the National League, which is heating up velocity, no pun intended, with Jacob
00:06Mizorowski, who is basically throwing his way to 103 miles an hour Cy Young award win, potentially
00:14here. It's like, that's all I hear about. Like, this is an interesting topic here, Peter, because
00:19basically he throws as hard as any pitcher has ever thrown in the history of Major League Baseball,
00:24but he's also doing it with results. So I would ask you, is it a three-player race with Sanchez,
00:32Mizorowski, and Skeens, who can't pitch during the day for some reason, but at night is the best
00:37pitcher in the history of the league? I think it's like a six or seven-player race in the National
00:44League, and it's one of the more incredible Cy Young races that we've seen, I think, in a long time,
00:49right? We already kind of knew going into the season, Paul Skeens was going to be the favorite,
00:53Christopher Sanchez, maybe Yoshinobu Yamamoto, was going to be two and three, but with the
00:57emergence of Jacob Mizorowski, it's one thing to throw 103 miles an hour, which is already
01:03just absurd, but when we're looking at perceived velocity, because Jacob Mizorowski extends down
01:10the mound over seven feet, so basically, in layman's terms, he's throwing the ball closer
01:15to the batter. Baseball savant gives us that perceived velocity, 106 miles an hour.
01:23Even saying that out loud sounds crazy to me, so he absolutely has to be up there, but when I'm
01:29looking at these odds right now, it's hard for me not to at least take a look at Zach Wheeler
01:35at 25 to
01:36one. I know he started the season late, but it wasn't that late, and because Wheeler has been so
01:42efficient, he's able to kind of log those six, seven-inning starts when maybe other pitchers might
01:48have five to six-inning elite outings, maybe similarly to a Shohei Ohtani. So Wheeler is
01:54trailing a little bit behind, and his fastball velocity is down, and yet he's still pitching to
01:58a 167 ERA, and that's why I say it's more of a six- or seven-man race, because Chase
02:04Burns looks
02:05like a young Spencer Strider at his peak. Shohei Ohtani barely ever allows runs, and we cannot forget
02:11about Chris Sale. I do think right now prices are accurate, but if I were to pick a long shot
02:19right
02:19now, I got my eyes on Wheeler.
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