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

Hunter Dobbins debuted earlier than just about everyone expected and was a pleasant surprise. Unfortunately, injuries cut his season short.

The Good

According to Baseball Savant, Dobbins threw six different pitches. I’ll ignore his sinker, because there are only 13 of them, and they’re close enough to his splitter to assume they were just harder splitters. I believe Dobbins calls the splitter shown on Savant a “splinker”. I digress.

What’s important is that Dobbins was able to earn strikes with four of the five pitches. He has pitches he can throw against both sides of the plate, raising his ceiling and ability to get deep into games. The righty also didn’t hand out free passes (6.6% walk rate) and kept the ball on the ground (48.4% grou

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