Comments on: Cubs Player Profile: Justin Grimm http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/12/30/cubs-player-profile-justin-grimm/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Brendan_CubsRelated http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/12/30/cubs-player-profile-justin-grimm/#comment-7984 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:27:39 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7229#comment-7984 Justin Grimm is one of my favorite pitchers the Cubs have. I think, in theory, he could become a starter, though it’s unnecessary right now because of their depth. His whiff rates on both his slider and curve are top-notch.

I actually am a little confused about Grimm’s data. I’m 99.9% sure that BrooksBaseball just corrected his pitch classification as of a few months ago, classifying what once used to be a slider as now a curve. Maybe I’m just imagining this, but I’m fairly certain I’m not.

]]> By: Zonk http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/12/30/cubs-player-profile-justin-grimm/#comment-7847 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:04:05 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7229#comment-7847 I loved the way Maddon used Grimm last year. Traditionalists use your best guy in the 9th and work backwards from there, but Grimm was most often the FIRST guy out of the pen. Which makes sense, because the first guy out often is coming in with runners on, and needs to snuff a 6th or 7th inning rally.

Sometimes “Closing” happens in the 6th inning

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