In 69 appearances, the southpaw had a 3.79 ERA and struck out 64 batters in 54.2 innings pitched. In 2024, Speier spent a month-and-a-half on the shelf from June 1-July 19 with a left rotator cuff ...

A left-handed batter and right-handed pitcher, Ohtani had right elbow surgery on Sept. 19 and the team said he won't pitch again until 2025. He underwent Tommy John surgery in October 2018 and ...

268/.320/.409 against right-handed pitching. He even stays in the left-handed batters box against certain lefty pitchers. Facing southpaws, he batted right-handed 67 times and left-handed 17 times ...

And it's about just if you have the option of putting a quality left-hand batter in the middle; why won't you do that? "Why would you want to have top five as right-handers? We don't look at ...

But, he can also set it up his curveball that breaks to the glove side and is an ace weapon against left-handed batters. The curveball has well-above-average vertical movement, making it a pitch ...

219 BAA) based on his usage (35.2%). Last year, left-handed batters had more success vs. his changeup (.285 BAA) and slider (.302 BAA). Fantasy Outlook: Lopez falls into my avoid category I ...

The cutter made up 13% of his pitch usage, per Statcast. Right- and left-handed batters combined to bat .432 off Liberatore’s cutter and whiffed on the pitch 22.8% of the time — the latter ...

It was May 13 last season. Nido was catching for the Mets. Bryce Harper was standing in the left-handed batter’s box after taking a called strike. Nido, as he’d done a million times before ...

He also brings the advantage of another left-hand batter to the top order. Both in front and behind the stumps, he is in career-best form. It's hard to know how many of Australia's more ...