Yankees: Aaron Boone says Chapman needs to ‘trust the power of his fastball’

During Saturday’s 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, it seemed that the Cuban closer of the New York Yankees, Aroldis Chapman, He relied heavily on secondary pitches like his slider instead of using his powerful fastball more. which is his best pitching and he often hits or hovers at 100 mph.

Chapman said after the game that he never lost confidence in the fastball. But Yankees manager Aaron Boone acknowledged Monday speaking to the press that Chapman, at times, stops using his fastball more often than he should.

“Part of that is the confidence he has in his secondary pitches and his ability to throw them on strike,” Boone said. “But I think it’s important that he can always make sure the fastball is a weapon.”

“Usually when he’s hitting his fastball well and on strike … that’s an indication that his mechanics are in line, and secondary pitches feed off of that.”

Chapman, one of the best closers in baseball history, is having arguably the worst season of his career, with a 3.72 ERA (his worst in a year) and 25 saves, third in the American League behind Liam Hendriks and the also Cuban Raisel Iglesias. Before the All-Star Game, Chapman had an ERA of 4.55, but shows a solid 2.20 after the break.

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Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie on Al Bat in early 2018 and am going for my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I am a fan of the San Francisco Giants, a number one defender of Barry Bonds and a critic of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to be taken away from the World Series for cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy soccer, football, basketball, and just about any other game that includes a ball or a ball. I am also an amateur musician, penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the shrimp capital of the world, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived in Australia for a while; i survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils, and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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