2025 In A Discarded-On-The-Dugout-Floor Nutshell

I’m not going to put his season in a discarded nutshell, because that’s what his season was itself. You should not care about Jordan Hicks’ results in 2025. Someone reading this, or someone reading the headline and nothing else, is going to see that he finished the season with a 6.95 ERA and write him off entirely. I’m here to tell you not to do that. You’re going to do that anyway, but don’t. Please.

The Good

Hicks’ sinker averaged 97.5 mph. It also came with about 17 inches of horizontal run. The list of pitchers who can throw a sinker with that much movement that hard is a very short one. The pitch returned a 68% ground ball rate, but hitters still hit .297 against it, thanks to a .341 batting average on balls in play. That screams pos

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