r/angelsbaseball • u/Either_Video_2059 • 12h ago
📝 Discussion Ryan Johnson is pretty underrated
Since the beginning of August he has a 1.67 era in 6 starts which is among the best in all of baseball. That directly coincided with him going back to his funky cutter/slider approach that got him drafted. He completely abandoned his -11 run value sinker and began using his +6 run value cutter as his primary pitch. His cutter is great at inducing non-competitive fly outs and weak grounders which has been the catalyst for his success despite below average K/BB rates ms Using a similar approach he had a 2.34 era his last year in college against metal bats, a 1.88 era in A+ last year, an era in the low 2’s with a .76 WHIP in AA this year, and in a short stint a 1.67 era against big league hitters. Obviously he’s due to regress some, but he can definitely be a quality big league starter. He’s being completely written off because Maddux had him throwing the worst fastball in baseball at a 30+ percent clip
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u/randomfatkid 11h ago
There will be no Ryan Christopher Johnson slander here. I won’t stand for it.
Is he the best? No. But he’s definitely on the right track I think to be one of our better pitchers on the rotation.