Less than a year ago, Logan Webb hit a low point. Now, he’s starting on OpeningDay stephapstein details how the Giants righthander put it all together
Webb realized that, as a ground ball pitcher, he didn’t have to worry about living on the corners or throwing “waste pitches.” Once he stopped trying to be too perfect, he found his groove.He can laugh about it now. His coaches and teammates had been telling him to throw strikes for as long as he could remember. He had done so in spring training because he had never thought he had a shot to make the team, so he just tried to get his work in.
In April, he threw 43% of his offerings in the zone. Against the Reds, that figure was 48%. By September, it was 52%. Bannister dropped Webb’s arm slot and all but took away his four-seamer. When COVID suspended the 2020 season, he spent those two months refining his motion. The result is a pitcher straight out of 2011—pounding the bottom of the zone with two-seamers and sliders. In an era when his peers chase velocity and spin rate, he rarely hits 95 mph, and he ranks in the fourth percentile in spin.
He admits he still sometimes lusts after the fire graphics that people paint on gifs of 100-mph four-seamers. But he understands that’s not who he is.
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