You're touching on an interesting area. There's velocity, late movement, and location. They have a lot of guys out of the bullpen who throw high 80s maybe touch 90 with no late movement. So you need location. When I say late movement I'm referring to guys like Austin Peterson, Ben Casparius etc. I know both guys are in the minor leagues but when you have late movement/velocity it provides you with a larger margin of error. For the current staff, the margin of error is very thin. They have to throw strikes. get ahead and hit spots. These guys are not professionals so that's a challenging task. At this point, you have to keep building confidence and encourage the staff to go after hitters. Tough to make major changes at this point in the season. It's more reinforcing the approach. Kirby - velocity is down, Coe - doesn't throw enough early strikes (when he does he's hard to hit) and Willis hasn't really pitched a lot this year but yes has been hit hard.
