Yes and no. As junkballer said in the game recap thread, when he was hit, he was hit hard. But he threw more than 70% of his pitches for strikes, an obscene total for Fausto. And he definitely had a different approach. He threw quite a few two-seamers inside to lefties, some coming back and hitting the corner (good), and some running back right over the heart of the plate (bad – Aburey’s hits came on these pitches). He also threw a ton of sliders to lefties. They weren’t very good, but he didn’t really get hurt on those. The above pitching patterns are very unusual for Fausto – and probably good.

He had a 7 or 8-batter stretch that was pretty much one ground ball after another. He really had the sinker going downward (and not horizontal) at that point, and he threw a few real good changeups. All in all, it was good, but…you know. You’d have to see this over a multi-start stretch next year before anyone got real excited.