The left-hander sped up his pace and regained his mechanics with nine consecutive scoreless appearances for Oklahoma City. The mechanical issue was one Vesia had identified even before he returned …
LOS ANGELES ― Dodgers pitcher Alex Vesia ended the 2022 regular season without allowing a run in 26 of his final 27 appearances. During that head-turning stretch of games, he struck out 40 batters across 25 innings while posting a 0.36 ERA, becoming Dave Roberts’ top left-handed set-up man in the process.
“The first couple weeks didn’t go the way I really wanted them to,” Vesia said. “Obviously I was working through some mechanical stuff, leaving the ball a little more in the zone. I was getting hit around a lot. I went down, carried out what I needed to work on. It clicked relatively quick.” The mechanical issue was one Vesia had identified even before he returned to the minors. He described it as a change to the position of his front leg, which in turn hurried his delivery to the plate. Incorporating that little change into his delivery took time.
This season, Vesia had managed to pick up his tempo without incurring a pitch-timer violation. But it might have caused him to lose track of the mechanics that previously made him elite.
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