Analysis: Dallas Keuchel doesn’t have the one quality most major league teams now look for in their pitchers: high velocity
Dallas Keuchel turned down the Houston Astros’ one-year, $17.9 million qualifying offer in November in hopes of securing a more lucrative contract in free agency. By Neil Greenberg Neil Greenberg Reporter analyzing advanced sports statistics for the Fancy Stats blog Email Bio Follow March 7 at 11:53 AM Opening Day is a few weeks away and Dallas Keuchel, the two-time all-star and 2015 American League Cy Young winner, remains unsigned.
Alas, there was not. Why? Perhaps because Keuchel doesn’t have the one quality most major league teams now look for in their pitchers: high velocity. Dallas Keuchel's pitches in 2018 Three of the biggest contracts handed out to starting pitchers this offseason were to hurlers with better fastballs than Keuchel.
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