Kyle Hendricks Low Velocity Assassin Splooge Thread

[Tonker]

Hendricks is starting to look really good at just the right time. 

Yeah that was 2016 Kyle right there.

That change is just ridonk.  Guys are swinging at a pitch that ends up ten inches off the plate.

[SKO]

He hit 88 a couple of times and he's getting a ton of swinging strikes with the changeups. Would appear class is back in session.

[Quality Start Machine]

He hit 88 a couple of times and he's getting a ton of swinging strikes with the changeups. Would appear class is back in session.

When he's on, there is literally no pitcher in baseball I enjoy watching more.

[Shooter]

Bump.

[SKO]

Ace

[Saul Goodman]

There's a new Secretary Of Education in town.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Stone cold.

[Bort]

He's just proud of a job well done. Now, he needs to finish staining his deck, so no more monkeyshines, kids.

[Canadouche]

Apparently Hendricks was touching 90 on his fastball due to "adrenaline."

[Quality Start Machine]

Forever Kyle Hendricks.

[Oleg]

Apparently Hendricks was touching 90 on his fastball due to "adrenaline."

Why is "adrenaline" in quotes?  Do you think he was smoking meth between innings or something?

[Canadouche]

Apparently Hendricks was touching 90 on his fastball due to "adrenaline."

Why is "adrenaline" in quotes?  Do you think he was smoking meth between innings or something?

Because if he was feeling the rush of adrenaline, how could anybody really tell?

[Canadouche]

I'm an idiot for not having noticed, but I was pretty impressed by the fact that Kyle's career ERA is below 3.00. I mean, it's obviously still very early in his career, but among elite, active pitchers, Kershaw was the only guy I found with a sub-3.00 ERA, albeit his career ERA is an amazing 2.36.

[Tonker]

I would love to know what happened between 2015 "looked-like-he-was-constantly-touching-cloth" Hendricks who wasn't really kidding anybody and couldn't get through six innings, and post-2015 "ice-water-in-his-veins" Hendricks who never bats an eyelid and whose change will make you look like a cunt.  Because the change was dramatic.

He's my second-favourite Cub to watch.

[SKO]

I would love to know what happened between 2015 "looked-like-he-was-constantly-touching-cloth" Hendricks who wasn't really kidding anybody and couldn't get through six innings, and post-2015 "ice-water-in-his-veins" Hendricks who never bats an eyelid and whose change will make you look like a cunt.  Because the change was dramatic.

He's my second-favourite Cub to watch.

Basically the Cubs convinced him he needed to throw his fastball and curveball more and stop relying on just his sinker and changeup, because the more he uses the fastball and curve to people expecting the sinker or the change the more he keeps them off balance. Once he figured out major league hitters can't crush an 87 mph fastball if they aren't expecting it and don't know where it's going to be, he had more confidence in all of his stuff. At least that's the gist of an article Sahadev wrote about him sometime early last year in The Athletic.