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Originally Posted by onedollaratatime
Starting pitching has been great. Unsure if odorizzi and Perez can keep this up though. I have a feeling a strong regression might be coming for those 2
For whatever it's worth, it looks like Odorizzi's average pitch speed is up 1-1.5mph across all his pitches and his biggest change is that he went from throwing 5% curves every year to 12% this year.
Perez obviously has had his changes well documented (never threw a recorded cutter before and now 34% of his pitches are cutters)
I would be more inclined to think people will regress to the means if the peripherals remained the same....not saying it couldn't still happen, but seeing change makes me a bit more optimistic.