In making a blockbuster trade for the 2021 NL Cy Young winner, Baltimore may only get one year out of the ace before his pending free agency. But the move is already paying dividends.
Two years ago, the Baltimore Orioles improved their pitching with one swift move. They moved the left field wall back and built it ridiculously high—ridiculous because it removes one of the most exciting plays in baseball, the home run robbery. The Great Wall of Baltimore worked. Orioles pitchers suddenly started throwing the ball over the plate. They immediately improved from 22nd in walk rate to seventh.
Impressive though such numbers may be, the full impact Burnes has made on the Orioles has no quantifiable measurement. The Orioles obtained not just a very good pitcher with dominating stuff but also a staff leader who makes those around him better.
On Monday against Tampa Bay, Burnes showed off what preparation can do. Against a Rays lineup with seven right-handed hitters he threw more sinkers than in any of his 103 starts over the past four years. Moreover, notoriously slow to the plate, Burnes incorporated many slide steps and pickoff throws to thwart the Tampa Bay running game. His plan worked. Burnes did not allow an earned run over seven innings, improving to 7–2 with a 2.
The masterclass he puts on every five or six days is spinning off benefits, especially when it comes to the improvement of Rodriguez. The 24-year-old righthander suddenly has stopped spraying his fastball, especially those non-competitive ones high and to the arm side that plagued him in April and May. Rodriguez has one walk over his past two starts, the first time in his career he has had that kind of command in back-to-back starts.
“We talked about him a couple of weeks ago where you saw all those spray armside-up misses. You haven't seen that since the third inning two starts ago. You saw something happened there, where he dialed in his fastball command unbelievably. and then the start in Toronto were his two best major league starts I’ve seen him make where he just—he didn’t out-stuff guys. He wasn’t throwing 98, 99 in the first inning but 95, 96, 97. The fastball command was there.
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