This kid is amazing.
He turned my attention to him after his 2nd and 3rd starts which increased his scoreless streak over 30 games and had an amazing ERA, WHIP and K’s.
Now, he sits 6 starts in, at 6-0, 54 k’s, 0.4 ERA, .84 WHIP, and 6 hits per 9 innings.
Everyone knows how important wins, era, and k’s are.
But WHIP is actually an underrated stat along with h/9.
WHIP is walks and hits per inning pitched.
So basically, Zack lets less than one person on per inning pitched.
He’s had 3 complete games, with 2 shutouts, one of which came last night against a powerful Chicago white sox team.
He’a number one in baseball, including hitters and pitchers according to yahoo’s fantasy stats.
45 innings pitched, 2 earned runs.
Unheard of.
But the amazing thing is the backstory of Zack.
He had an article written about him in SI not too long ago, after he turned mine and the rest of the world’s heads towards him.
He came into the game as skilled as a young player can be, and dominated in his rookie season.
He became the royals pitcher of the year as a rookie.
It’s not really saying much, because its the royals, but a rookie doing that is still awesome.
Then he became unamused with the game.
It was boring to him, dominating at such a young age.
He even didn’t like pitching as much as hitting.
He felt like he was forced to become a pitcher.
He one time promised he’d throw a 50-mph curveball in the next inning he pitched.
50 mph is amazingly slow, kids in 5th grade can get that high with a fastball.
He threw it to Dmitri Young (what a perfect person to throw it to), and it looped in there slow as possible.
The mph reading?
50 on the dot.
He eventually had problems mentally and took a year or two off of baseball.
He had severe depression issues and finally sorted them out after a while.
He came back about 3 years later and continued his domination.
Now he puts the royals on his back, and is capable of making his own baseball league.
Like a blitz, but baseball.
He’d be the only one that didn’t cheat, and i’m sure he’d still dom the whole league.
He and nelson cruz should go together into the ZNBL.
Zack-Nelson Baseball League.
Where Fun Happens.
I can see it now.
What a stud.
This is actually the exact pitch where zack threw the 50-mph curveball.
But wait!?! Isn’t Dmitri’s bat broken?
Yes, it is. But Dmitri is so cocky he heard the comment from zacky and assumed he could hit that pitch with a broken bat so he tried.
And failed miserably.
"hey next time i'm gonna throw a 100 mph change-up." "Is that possible?" "Don't question me stupid catcher"
What a rough guy.
Don’t mess with Zacky, or as he shall now be called, the Royal(e) with Cheese.
Pronounced roy-al.
This is a graph.
It’s basically the red and pink dots versus the blue and green.
I hope the blue and green ones win, that’d be cool.
Actually this is some odd pitch chart that shows the break of all his pitches.
It’s good to have a graph like this, just in case you uneducated fools didn’t know.
See what i did there??????????????^________^
just in case.
as if he were named Justin Case.
Or Just Incase.
how ironic.
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