Best Pitch, 2023 Edition

[Bourgeois Zee]

C Trent has had an interesting question each of the past four seasons: Which Red (and which pitch) is the nastiest in camp?

Four years ago, it was Luis Castillo's two-seam fastball, then three years ago, Castillo's changeup. (That kind of tells you how good Castillo was as a pitcher.) Last year, Greene's fastball won the nastiest pitch award, though Nick Lodolo's breaking ball got quite a few votes.

This season, Lodolo's slider is once again the talk of camp, as are the following:

- Graham Ashcraft's cutter
- Graham Ashcraft's fastball
- Lucas Sims' slider

Honorable mention went to:
- Graham Ashcraft's slider (Interesting, that.)
- Brandon Williamson's curve (Not last night, apparently)
- Hunter Greene's fastball (again)
- Buck Farmer's changeup
- Alex Young's change
- Levi Stoudt's slider
- Chase Anderson's change
- Conner Overton's changeup

[UKFlounder]

Phil Castellini’s “sales pitch” is rather nasty, though not “the best”