Scouting: Strider
Spencer is a dominant force who has added a curveball. Why? How does that change his approach? His pitch sequencing?
The season opens up one day later than scheduled due to heavy & persistent rain across the area. But that’s kind of a blessing if you ask me. Now we don’t have an off-day between Game One & Game Two. What a cruel little trick that would’ve been: waited all off-season for baseball, get it, then have a day without baseball immediately following our first taste in months.
Four straight sounds great to me.
Spencer Strider
The Clemson product makes his first career Opening Day start, a huge milestone for anyone who chooses pitching as a dream that one day becomes vocation. His Opening Day nod is primarily due to the dominant season he had in 2023. In 2023, he had Savant red bars in the following categories (red bars on Baseball Savant indicate “great” when compared to a given player’s peers):