DY9e7WxKdH- Baltimore Orioles June 4, 2023 Wells one-ups that with 94% active spin on his changeup, allowing Wells to create the type of movement that makes it such an effective out pitch. This season, Williams’s change features 91% active spin (i.e. Brewers reliever Devin Williams is often viewed as having the nastiest changeup in all of baseball due to the large amount of spin and movement on his go-to pitch. The spin on Wells’s changeup is what gives it that darting action that makes it so tough on hitters and such an effective out pitch. In fact, Wells and Bautista’s fastballs have the same Run Value that lands each of their fastballs amongst the 20-best four-seamers in MLB. While Wells can’t necessarily blow his fastball by hitters just from sheer velocity-the way Félix Bautista does-that late rising action still makes it plenty hard to hit. His fastball spin rate ranks in the 89th percentile across all of baseball, meaning it generates much more of a late rising action as it crosses the plate than the average fastball. What Wells does have is an elite spin rate on his fastball and changeup, which helps make up for his lack of elite velocity. Yet time and time again this season, he’s proved that perception wrong. Nothing about Wells’s stuff suggests he should be anywhere close to dominant. Both his curveball and slider have average to below average drop to them, though the slider somewhat makes up for that with above average horizontal break. His fastball-whose velocity hovers around 93 mph-ranks in the 19th percentile for MLB heaters. It’s true that Wells doesn’t possess the elite fastball velocity or wipeout breaking ball often associated with the best starters in baseball. Tyler Wells /Vp5c2KCWat- Mike Kurland June 5, 2023 849 WHIP.Īmong qualified pitchers over the last 30 days only 3 had:
Not to mention, Wells still leads all of baseball with a. His batting average against ranks third in all of baseball, behind only Ohtani and Braves phenom Spencer Strider. His pitching WAR is in the same ballpark as pitchers like Clayton Kershaw, Shohei Ohtani and Zac Gallen-names regularly seen as some of the very best starters in the league. However, Wells holds his own against more than just potential Orioles trade targets. There are certainly those who would argue that ranking ahead of Bieber, Burnes and Cease is less meaningful because all three members of that trio are in the midst of down seasons. Compared to the pitchers that many want to lead the Orioles rotation, there’s a strong argument that Wells is the best of the bunch in 2023. Among the five pitchers, Wells also is second to Rodriguez when it comes to ERA, trails only Cease in K/9 and leads the group in batting average against. Going just off pitching WAR, Wells’ 1.6 WAR trails only Rodriguez when it comes to the pitchers linked with a potential move to the Camden Yards. However, when you stack up those names against what Wells has done, the leader of the Orioles rotation more than holds his own. Fans throw around names like Dylan Cease, Shane Bieber, Eduardo Rodriguez and Corbin Burnes as pitchers they feel would fill Baltimore’s biggest need: a staff ace. Throughout the early part of this season, in which the Orioles have emerged as one of the top teams in baseball, many members of Birdland have clamored for the front office to add a starting pitcher. Despite beginning the season as the O’s fifth starter, Wells has risen above the other members of the rotation by showing stretches of dominance to go along with a high level of consistency. In fact, Wells is the only Baltimore starter this year who’s gone at least five innings in every single appearance this season. It was his seventh appearance this season where the righty has pitched 5+ innings and allowed two or fewer runs. Sunday was far from the first time Wells frustrated opposing hitters this season.
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