Rafael Devers' fastball problem is bad news for Giants after Red Sox trade
Things aren't going well for Devers at all.
Rafael Devers' fastball problem is bad news for Giants after Red Sox trade originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Rafael Devers was supposed to be the leading hitter for the San Francisco Giants for the next decade.
But about a year after the Boston Red Sox traded Devers away, the lefty slugger isn't hitting much of anything. There may be one thing that stands out more than anything else as far as Devers is concerned: He's not hitting fastballs. Fastballs, while they are thrown harder and move more than ever, are still the pitches that most batters have to make their money against.
Devers has been one of baseball's worst against heaters. "Especially alarming is his struggles against four-seam fastballs -- he’s hitting . 146 (6-for-41) with a 51.
1% whiff rate and a 59. 5% strikeout rate on those pitches this year," MLB. com's Thomas Harrigan wrote in a new article this weekend.