Tampa Bay Rays Pitchers Revolutionize Offspeed Pitches

The Tampa Bay Rays pitchers are revolutionizing their offspeed pitches this spring training, with Joe Boyle, Yoendrys Gomez, Jesse Scholtens, and Jake Woodford debuting new shapes that drop more instead of lifting up. This tweak creates a bigger gap in vertical approach angle between these pitches and their fastballs, making it harder for hitters to guess right and leading to more swings at bad pitches outside the zone and higher whiff rates. The Rays are optimizing everything else while keeping fastball traits strong, and early trends suggest better command and location down in the zone. These changes align with a league-wide shift toward deeper dropping changeups and splitters, positioning the Rays as leaders in building swing-and-miss arsenals. Support the showGet a discount at https://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on [email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected] View sources & latest updateshttps://sources.thednn.ai/2ed7c92e2a2eaac6