Jacob Misiorowski keeps forcing people to find new ways to talk about him, and Mark DeRosa didn’t hold back.
On “The Pat McAfee Show” on ESPN, the Team USA manager and former player zeroed in on what makes the Milwaukee Brewers All-Star so difficult to handle, beyond the obvious headline: the velocity.
“I think we'll see guys eventually get to that miles per hour. But he is a freak of nature, what we're watching right now,” DeRosa said.
“The ability, the extension, and its 103, 104, and the extension's making it look even hotter. He's getting swings from big league hitters on heaters in heater counts that you just don't see.”
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That’s the part that separates Misiorowski from the usual flamethrower. DeRosa pointed out that even when hitters know what’s coming, they still can’t square it up.
In counts like 1-0, 2-0 and 3-1, batters are usually sitting on a fastball, waiting to jump on it. Against Misiorowski, that plan still doesn’t seem to work.
“So when you get in a 1-0, 2-0, 3-1 count, it's you're usually getting a heater because they got to get back in the count,” DeRosa said. “And when you know you're getting a heater and they're still blowing it by you, it's playing differently than everybody else's because you're licking your chops.”
He even compared that feeling to being in the box with a big-name arm behind you in the lineup, using Josh Beckett as the example.
“If I'm in a three-one count and I look on deck, and I know I got like a Hall of Famer up behind me,” DeRosa continued. “I've had Josh Beckett in a 2-0 count look at the camera and go, like maybe the catcher puts a slider down, and he'd go, like, getting a four-seam cheeser right down your throat, and it's like, all right, let's go, let's cheat to it.”
Misiorowski’s season has backed up the buzz. He’s sitting on a 1.62 ERA with 167 strikeouts and a 10-4 record, and as his Milwaukee career keeps moving forward, the conversation around him isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
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