McCutchen explains why Cortes Jr. is so good

the cuban pitcher New York Yankees Nestor Cortes Jr.., has been one of the great revelations of the organization in the last two seasons, and perhaps lived its best moment since who is in the Bronx when flirting with the no-hitter this Monday against the Texas Rangers, where he pitched 7.1 innings allowing only one hit with 11 strikeouts, and although he is not a power pitcher, it’s still hard to hit him.

Veteran Andrew McCutchen, now with the Milwaukee Brewers, wrote on his Twitter account about the qualities that the Cuban has that make him so difficult for hitters to figure out.

Nestor Cortés’ fastball really rises. That makes his 91-94 mph really feel like 97. He mixes that with messing up the timing of hitters, throwing from different angles, with good location it’s very hard to hit him. And he proved that today.

In 32 innings pitched this year, Cortes has a 1.41 ERA with 42 strikeouts and a 0.969 WHIP, the lowest ERA in the entire American League behind only Logan Gilbert of the Seattle Mariners, who has an ERA of 1.36.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie at Al Bat in early 2018 and am in my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I’m a fan of the San Francisco Giants, number one defender of Barry Bonds, and hater of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to have the World Series taken from them for their cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy football, flag football, basketball, and just about any other game that involves a ball or ball. I’m also an amateur musician, a penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the world capital of shrimp, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived for a while in Australia; I survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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