Casey Mize made seven major league appearances in his game while starring in Fangraphs in January 2021. He also has high expectations. The Detroit Tigers first selected from Auburn University, with the right-handed ranked 32nd in the year three years ago when our February 2021 released our roster of 2021’s top 100 prospects. Eric Longenhagen is bullish on his ability, viewing Mize as “the second starter who can pitch on the top of the competitor’s spin.”
Our main prospect analyst’s assessment is a warning of “if he stays healthy”. Longenhagen wrote that he was “fear enough that Mize’s injury history…slide him behind a player with similar talents.” Unfortunately, these concerns have been proven. The 28-year-old pitcher needs Tommy John’s surgery in June 2022, and he has also landed on the shelf with a handful of mild illnesses.
His numbers reflect the time missed and the impact it had on his career. Entering the current campaign, Mize threw 291 innings only as Tiger, and his ledger scored a record of 9-19 with a low 4.36 ERA, not exactly the expectation of a high-profile draft pick with executive arms.
Tiger fans finally see Casey Mize they’ve been longing for. In the mid-2024 season, the Revival Right-wing right-hand started with 22 runs of 3.68 ERA and 3.98 FIP, including 117 1/2 innings. Mize pitched behind Cy Young’s favorite Tarik Skubal, almost matched rotational companion Jack Flaherty in the War Department, and lost four starts.
During the offseason, access to the drive line contributes to fuel success. Last year’s performance was unhappy – his 4.49 ERA and 17.3% strikeout rate stood out like a sore thumb – and he headed to the training facility five days after the season. The result is an adjustment to how he grasps and releases the baseball.
“I flipped the seam orientation over the four Seamers, so it carried more,” Mize explained. “I’m tracking the seam instead of up and down. This is something they told me I could benefit from it. They also want me to add a slider that is actually left. So, I’m throwing a bigger slider now. I don’t call it a sweeper because it’s only eight inches left.
When asked if he means he is going to stretch out the pointer fingers of the stitching, the correct affirmative answer.
“Yes, there is a baby spike,” he told me. “Again, I can’t oriented the seam correctly to the position of the super seam on the seam, but I’ll try at some point. It’s not what I’m trying to do, so I can definitely maximize it. I can get some great results, though.”
A clearer product is a complement to Mize tracks, not a substitute. His baseball syd breakdown reflects a lot. Savant shows that last year, Mize threw a total of 466 sliders (and 15 courses classified as SLL); this season, they made him throw 266 sliders and 280 SLL.
The movement profile of his initial slider is different from the outline of a year ago.
“It’s a bit of a gyro slider, I’m still throwing it, but now I have a left, [the gyro] It’s actually kicked up,” Miz said. “In the past, it was like zero, three (like a real gyroscope), and now it has more cutter features. ”
During the offseason, the pitcher adjusts the tracks at external facilities during the offseason, which happened even when he was a good organization in the field development. According to the pitcher, the Tigers had no problem doing so.
“Basically, ‘This is my plan,” Miz told me. “We’ve been in touch. That’s their advice; what do you guys think?’ Tiger told me what they think, we’ve worked together.
Mize obviously performed better this season, but that doesn’t mean he sees himself as a finished product. keep away. A good example is his desire to add more levels to the slider/slure. Apart from that, what is he most trying to improve?
“level [on the slider] Mize said on my question: “Probably the biggest thing in the case file. Ideally, I would like to have a better settlement feature than what I’m doing right now. It’s not a settlement piece, it’s a two-slit fastball. It’s interesting to me that they want to call every two-slit fastball a sink piece, and we seem to have eight different slider names. But yes, I want to cut a little out of a two-slit match. I don’t want to throw two shoes up and look up [positive] 15 Vert. I want to see 11. It’s a trivial change, but I don’t want to carry it near the four seame things I’m going to carry. Carrying different tones is a good thing. That’s a little bit I’m picky about, but every bit [of improvement] help. ”
