![]() ![]() If you nibble ineffectually, you’ll run up a huge tally of called balls. If you simply pound the strike zone with so-so stuff, you won’t get many called or swinging strikes. You can think of that gap as a crude measure of how much a pitcher can attack the zone or entice hitters to leave the zone without giving up too much contact. From 2019 to 2022, he racked up 260 more called balls than called and swinging strikes. That’s a huge divergence from Cabrera’s earlier career, when he struggled with both his command and with missing bats. ![]() That’s no fluke, either he’s so deceptive and so hard to square up that he’s recorded more called or swinging strikes than he has balls this year, by a count of 68 to 60. Nineteen of the 45 opponents he’s faced have struck out. He’s only pitched 11 times in 2023, but those 11 times have been revelatory. ![]()
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