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The single-elite-pitch era is closing out. Hitters caught up. Flatter swings, simpler load patterns, machine prep against any movement profile, and the discipline to ride out their front side mean a 70-grade four-seamer alone doesn't survive third time through the order anymore. The new edge is repertoire.Trevor and Dan break down why pitching development has shifted toward stacking multiple fastballs at the same velocity. Zach Wheeler throws three. Paul Skenes throws three. Cam Schlittler, Peyton Tolle, Davis Martin, Christopher Sanchez — all riding multi-fastball mixes that defeat the single-pitch sit. The conversation moves through tunneling, weak contact and stolen strikes as the new market inefficiencies, why Stuff+ models miss repertoire interaction, and Corbin Burns as the canonical case study where a "below-average" sinker existed to make a 120-grade cutter play.
Chapters
00:00 — Open / Mother's Day intro
01:53 — The multi-fastball trend: Soriano, Schlittler, Joe Ryan, Peyton Tolle
02:22 — The Zach Wheeler model: why hitters caught up, and the Trajekt machine
03:58 — Mizorowski as the velocity outlier
04:58 — Christopher Sanchez: when even an elite pitch starts getting hunted
07:22 — Corbin Burns: cutter as the engine, sinker as the steal
12:46 — The two missed market inefficiencies: weak contact and stolen strikes
16:48 — Peyton Tolley: adding a C-grade sinker to make a 70-grade four-seamer play
21:54 — Davis Martin: 60% fastball, three variations, nothing graded above average, sub-2 ERA
23:19 — Joey Volcheck and Georgia: the trend reaching college baseball
24:40 — IPitch / Trajekt: how hitter prep changed the math
32:17 — Multi-fastball relievers: Vodnik, Mejia, Perkins
41:22 — The Stuff+ blind spot: how do you grade repertoire interaction?
51:00 — Closing thoughts
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The single-elite-pitch era is closing out. Hitters caught up. Flatter swings, simpler load patterns, machine prep against any movement profile, and the discipline to ride out their front side mean a 70-grade four-seamer alone doesn't survive third time through the order anymore. The new edge is repertoire.Trevor and Dan break down why pitching development has shifted toward stacking multiple fastballs at the same velocity. Zach Wheeler throws three. Paul Skenes throws three. Cam Schlittler, Peyton Tolle, Davis Martin, Christopher Sanchez — all riding multi-fastball mixes that defeat the single-pitch sit. The conversation moves through tunneling, weak contact and stolen strikes as the new market inefficiencies, why Stuff+ models miss repertoire interaction, and Corbin Burns as the canonical case study where a "below-average" sinker existed to make a 120-grade cutter play.
Chapters
00:00 — Open / Mother's Day intro
01:53 — The multi-fastball trend: Soriano, Schlittler, Joe Ryan, Peyton Tolle
02:22 — The Zach Wheeler model: why hitters caught up, and the Trajekt machine
03:58 — Mizorowski as the velocity outlier
04:58 — Christopher Sanchez: when even an elite pitch starts getting hunted
07:22 — Corbin Burns: cutter as the engine, sinker as the steal
12:46 — The two missed market inefficiencies: weak contact and stolen strikes
16:48 — Peyton Tolley: adding a C-grade sinker to make a 70-grade four-seamer play
21:54 — Davis Martin: 60% fastball, three variations, nothing graded above average, sub-2 ERA
23:19 — Joey Volcheck and Georgia: the trend reaching college baseball
24:40 — IPitch / Trajekt: how hitter prep changed the math
32:17 — Multi-fastball relievers: Vodnik, Mejia, Perkins
41:22 — The Stuff+ blind spot: how do you grade repertoire interaction?
51:00 — Closing thoughts

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