The lefty was lit up on Saturday, but there may be a good reason why.
Royals lefty Daniel Lynch did not have a good time in his second career MLB start, failing to get out of the first inning after yielding eight runs to the White Sox on Saturday night. The lefty walked just one but was hit hard for seven hits, including a home run to Danny Mendick.
It was just the eighth time in the last ten years a Royals starter has failed to get out of the first inning, and some of those were due to injuries.
After the game, Mike Matheny seemed a bit perplexed that Lynch could get hit that hard, but did seem to suggest one possibility.
Royals manager Mike Matheny on Daniel Lynch tonight: “You could almost tell anybody what pitch is coming and what location and still not have those kind of results.
One Royals fan looked at the tape, and did find some evidence that perhaps Lynch was signaling what was coming to White Sox hitters.
While I made Lynch's overlay stuff on his MLB debut game, I found his tipping pitch on slider. His motions when he threw Changeup, Curve & Fastball are similar, but slider motion is kinda different. Especially on glove side. pic.twitter.com/ZnpA7Xa615
Lynch threw 34 pitchers and did get five whiffs, two of them on his slider, so perhaps White Sox hitters didn’t always know what to expect. But they did hit him hard, which is a lot easier to do once you know what’s coming (just ask the Houston Astros!)
made a scatter-chart of the exit velos/xBAs for the Lynch outing. The two outs get green circles. There wasn't a lot of cheap hits during his outing. For the sake of comparison, the scatter for the first outing (the 4 hits get red circles). That one, the hits were mostly hard-hit https://t.co/eiCrXmELG0pic.twitter.com/Pz66ufDhPX
If Lynch was tipping his pitches, that may be a bit encouraging that his performance can be corrected rather easily. Let’s hope the lefty can make an adjustment and pitch up to the potential that so many talent evaluators see in him.
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