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Taking a peek at Martin's pitch metrics...

He's continuing to go with a very changeup-heavy approach but also mixing in a sinker that he can't throw for a strike. That said, nothing he's throwing has been in the zone much today and he's been fairly wild in the zone too. Velo is down about 1.5mph across the board.

His 4-seamer has 5 inches more induced vertical break than his long-term average today; in other words, a ton more rise than normal. Very different pitch. It's really the only pitch that hasn't hurt him today, despite lowered velo. You could see as that nightmare inning went on he started to realize that pitch was one he could trust more than the others.

Overall, the *average* exit velo given up by Martin today is unremarkable but he just can't throw a strike so he's given up some very hot contact when it mattered. Hope he can take something useful from the outing (and that the dip in velo is because of the cold).

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6 minutes ago, fathom said:

I have no idea why Venable took this job 

I definitely had the feeling of "accepting this job is a serious hit to anyone's credibility." But I'm okay with him so far, you're just not going to look brilliant if the team stinks. And I assume he might learn a few things along the way.

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