MLB trends: Julio Rodríguez cuts the strikeouts, Yankees cut the velocity and the Cardinals’ leadoff magic

The first 25% of the 2025 MLB season is in books, and everything starts to look normal for a better period of time. Only one qualified hit (Aaron Judge) hits more than 0,400, and only a handful of qualified snacks have a 2.00 era. Drugs that began to get poor and candidates who have started well, they returned to the country. There are three trends here now worth following when we enter the thick of May.

Julio cuts with KS

Mariners Star: Julio Rodríguez He did something this last Saturday. He went out. Rodríguez started not to match 35 consecutive plates in the form of eight games. Before this stretch, he never had more than three straight games without strikes. Rodríguez has doubled the best series of that career this month.

“The big thing is that he got a good rhythm in his hands, but sometimes it’s too much,” said Marins Kevin Saytzer recently (Through Seattle Times) “… When I saw where I saw where he was now in a much better position.

Rodríguez, who is still only 24, drives a career at a low 20.3% blow interest rate. This year, the average MLB is 22.0% blow, and the rodrix was between 2522-24. Everything for him is in the zone. Her hands calmed down led to less swings and miss on lands in the strike zone. The schedule is worth a thousand words.

Rodríguez’s intracting price was right about 80% in the last few ways. It was more closer to 85% recently, which is more or less league average. The belt’s more contact is equal to fewer strikes, and because Julion Premium exit speed is stabbed on strikes, makes it much more damage. He strikes .289 / .333 / .489 in May. After line 207 / .309 / .372.

Because he is an aggressive hit, who often pursues the zone, the strikes will always be part of a rodrix game. He is not going to suddenly turn into Steven Kvi, you know? But with his severe strike, his strike rate after 20% to 20% will make a big change for him and marines. Julio’s natural talent is so obvious and it is easy to forget that he is still so young and gains the experience. Having his hands allowed him to take another step to take his superstitious ceiling.

Soft throwing yanks

Although they are known as Brong bombers, Yankees have been quite wonderful because the board is over the last few seasons. In 2021-24, Yankees took the fifth place in the age (3:70), a total of sixth is allowed for each game (4.02), and 71: 9. New York was one of the best prevention teams during the game with four years.

Randomly, Yankees also occupied the top of the league at Fastball Fortocity, those four ways. Speed ​​is not everything but a rather large piece of pie. Speed ​​is equal to the error margin. The faster the playing field is, the less time it is when the curb is to respond, which means less time to break the balls and adjust the offsavd lands. Speed ​​is apparent plus.

This season, Yankees went to one of the hardest sports teams to alleviate. Here is where Yankees have agreed to four sewing fastball and sink speed in the last few years.

Last year, the dipped fall began when Markus Stroan was added to rotation, and Lefley team was brought to Midsass to help the bullpen. Yankees took the majority with this year more understanding the speed of the speed of the Gerrit Cole (Tommy John Surgery) and Luis Gil (Lat LITAIN), throwing combined zero soils. There were two of the top 20 of the top 20 snacks of fastball speed, and they still played the field this season. (Gill is expected to return for several weeks. Cole is done for 2025).

The lack of speed is especially evident in the Bullpen. The hardest playing field thrown by Yankees’ Reliever this season is 96.9 MPH SPUPER on this past weekend. Yankees threw Reliever Relitering 97 Mph Fastball this year (ie no rounding). Each other teams received at least 98.0 km / h. Twenty-three teams received 99.0 km / h and 18 received 100.0 km / h. Yankees have left several terms below.

The lack of speed has not been damaged by the so far too Many people entered Tuesday, they classified in the ninth nine (3,66), a total of 9th is allowed for each game (3.98) and the 11th in the war. Yankees is not Tippy Top Prevention Top Team, but they are above average, which is quite good without colle and Gilly, plus Duin Williams fights. Everything had the opportunity to really sidewalks on the sidewalks, with the two bench. So far, they do the job, even if they are the mild saying in the league.

Nootbaar tone for cardinals

11 win in their last 13 gamesCardinals suddenly find themselves Nl central race thickAlthough the season is still to play. Their holes were much better than the bullpon, especially in that 11, he wins eight times for at least five miles. Six times they earned at least six runs.

Defining the shade for Cardinals in 2023. The classic world baseball champion Lars nootbaar is 40 out of 42 games. Nootbaar hits .50 / .372 / .419 (30) with more walks (30) than this season, and his numbers left out of this world. Check out the NOOTBAAR numbers as the first intravan first crush.

Nootbaar has reached the 5-time plate of the base 20 times to start a game. These 40 times the base are divided into eight hits, including two leading homer, and 12 walks. To start the main of Nootbaar, the most baseball is most in baseball before the 18th of Francisco Lindor. Lindor also has two leading plates.

It may seem that it doesn’t seem like that, but 12 walks to start a game. At least 45 walks to start a game in one season in a season. The record of the expansion era is the 28th march of “Willi Randolph” in the Yankees of 1980. Nootbaar is the PACE to destroy Randolph record. All time post is a 47 leading walk by Eddie Stemy with 1945 Dodgers. Nootbaar has an outside shot in it.

.Through MLB.com) “There are times when I can jump on the pitch. But comes from the old school baseball family, that’s what you do, and that’s a lot of sticks.

Here, however, St. Louis did a terrible business to make nootbaar lead to a turning turn. Although, although nootbaar has reached the middle of the base games, the cardinals have earned only 14 first functions: baseball and crust (eight). Only twice in all season they earned many first places. Two times the NOOTBAAR played a draw, then Willon’s counterattack has become a variety of a multi-basic basic blow.

Nootbaar holds the end of the transaction. He was incredible as a leading man and especially coming out of the games. It is on the rest of the Cardinals that cashbaar creates the first input. First Inning Runners change the game of the game. Fast first penetrating runners make the other team play immediately. Nootbaar is so good this season out of the lead. He was the main reason, St. Louis remains the tournament table in the last few weeks.