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Similar Fastballsįor the most part, Gil has relied on a three-pitch mix, throwing his fastball just over 53 percent of the time, his slider about 40 percent of the time, and his changeup about seven percent of the time. While their batted ball profiles are different - Severino induced more ground balls, Gil more fly balls and popups - they both wound up with an xOBACON of. Gil finishes the season with a higher strikeout rate, but also a higher walk rate, resulting in a lower K/BB rate. Their FIPs, meanwhile, are just 0.02 points apart, and their HR/9 just 0.1.
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Despite having a higher overall ERA, Gil’s 142 ERA+ is just one point higher than Severino’s, which means that they are both almost identical relative to league average. I present, for your consideration, the rookie seasons of Severino and Gil, respectively, courtesy of Baseball Reference: Both, however, provided important innings at critical moments in a playoff hunt. In the end, Severino ended up making almost twice as many starts as Gil did (11 to six), but that was more a function of the 2021 team simply having more pitchers capable of putting together quality starts. The Yankees wound up losing the game, 2-1, but that was more due to the Yankees lineup having absolutely no idea what to do with Steven Wright’s knuckleball for eight innings than any fault of Sevy. Rather than add a pitcher at the deadline, the organization decided to ring in the Baby Bombers era and promoted Severino to the majors to make his debut on August 5th against the Red Sox - a game that yours truly was in attendance for.įacing a Boston lineup headlined by the young Xander Bogaerts and elderly David Ortiz, Severino held his own, allowing only one run on two hits in five innings, striking out seven and walking none - his only mistake was a fourth-inning solo shot off the bat of Ortiz. Five games in front of the second-place Baltimore Orioles with a 58-45 record, the Yankees were in desperate need for starting pitching - for context, Chris Capuano and his 7.97 ERA got the ball three days before the deadline, after all. In fact, the more I dove into Gil’s six starts this year, the more parallels I found with Severino’s 2015 campaign. And that reminded me of another young pitcher, one who shares a first name with Gil and who returned to the mound for the first time in 707 days on Tuesday: Luis Severino. This demotion likely ends his season: due to the rule stating that a player must stay in the minors for ten days after being optioned, the earliest he can return is September 28th, and let’s be honest, the Yankees are not going to want to trust any of the final six games in a close playoff race to a rookie with command issues.Īs Josh wrote on Tuesday, Gil’s cup of coffee this season has been filled with ups and downs, showing both high-end starting potential and mechanics issues that could have him ticketed for a bullpen role if he does not iron them out. Late last week, the Yankees optioned top pitching prospect Luis Gil to Triple-A Scranton after a rough outing against Cleveland in which he struggled with command, walking four and hitting one.