Brusdar Graterol will add a pitch to his repertoire for MLB 2022

During practices at the Dodgers’ training camp, Brusdar Graterol indicated that for this coming season he will have a new pitching in his repertoire when making an appearance on the mound by the Californian team.

The key to being a pitcher in baseball is sometimes not based on throwing great speeds but on the placement of pitches, however, when these factors are perfectly integrated, a lethal pitcher from the mound results. Creole pitcher Brusdar Graterol is part of that group of pitchers who meet these two characteristics.

According to information from Jorge Castillo, Graterol, stated that he is going to implement a new pitching although he did not reveal what it will be and making it clear that something good was coming, but he did it with a colloquial expression of his country.

“A good pod out there.” Graterol expressed.

Graterol added a release to their playlist in 2021

For the 2021 Major League season, the Venezuelan added a “cutter” to his pitches that reached 95.3 miles per hour and that he used 39 times. Among his pitches, his sinker stands out, which is used quite frequently and exceeds 100 miles per hour.

Percentage of utilization of his pitches

According to Statcast measurements, Brusdar Graterol uses his four-seam fastball in 2.1% of his performances, on the other hand he works on his rivals mixing his sinker used in 59.1% and his slider in 31.4%, placing the sinker usually in the center from the zone and the slider from the middle to the lower corners of the strike zone.

Graterol numbers during the 2021 campaign

In the regular season, he won 3 wins without losses, in 34 plate appearances, pitched 33.1 innings where he managed to strike out 27 batters leaving an ERA of 4.59, in the postseason he lost one game striking out seven and pitched only nine innings in eight appearances on the mound.

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