00:00Christopher Sanchez has done this. What he's become, I think a lot of it is just
00:06he knows he can throw that changeup anytime, any count, any hitter. He could tell these guys it's
00:15coming. Nobody can hit it. How about this? In May, he's thrown 207 changeups, eight hits.
00:25The hitters have swung at 125 changeups, eight hits, 64 swings and misses, 64 whiffs, eight hits.
00:37You understand why StatCast values that pitch as the single best pitch in the sport,
00:43and they're not wrong. Am I missing something? No, I will tell you this much. During this streak,
00:49do you realize it's, he's held batting, batting average with runners, runners in score or runners
00:55on base. Oh, for 26. Yeah, that'll work. That's insanity. It's insanity. It really is. But you
01:04know, he's like these three pitches, everything's tunneling out of the same slot, moving in different
01:10directions at different speeds, all at the bottom of the zone. So he's got this changeup sinker slider
01:18mix, and it just makes him not hittable. Would you believe that the launch angle against him,
01:27all his pitches this month is less than one degree? That means it's a miracle when the hitters even get
01:34the ball in the air. That's even when they're making contact, period. I don't know what you guys see,
01:41but that's what I see. This combination of swing, miss, ground ball, presence, confidence. It's crazy.
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