\n\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”thumbnail_url”:null,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”This might have been exactly what Fried needed to turn his season around. He entered this outing having produced a 7.71 ERA through his first four starts. His only previous impressive outing came on April 12, when he limited the Marlins to one run over 6 1/3 innings.\n\nBut Braves manager Brian Snitker saw some encouraging signs last week, when Fried held the Astros to three runs over five innings.\n\n“It’s good to see him right himself and get this thing rolling,” Snitker said. “What you saw tonight was what he is capable of.””,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”OEmbed”,”html”:”“,”providerName”:”MLB”,”providerUrl”:null,”thumbnail_url”:”https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/ar_121:168,c_fill,g_face/w_121/v1/people/608331/action/vertical/current”,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:425,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Fried’s attack was more similar to the one that helped him earn two top-five finishes in balloting for the National League Cy Young Award over the past four seasons. The slider he introduced in 2019 helped him become one of the game’s top starters. But he began shying away from it this year.\n\nBaseball Savant shows the slider accounted for 18.4 percent of Fried’s pitches in 2022, 10.7 percent in ‘23 (much of which he missed because of left forearm inflammation) and just 3.4 percent in the first four starts of this season. Instead, he was leaning more on the sweeper, which went from 4.6 percent usage last year to 14.4 percent this year.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Video”,”contentDate”:”2024-04-23T23:20:00Z”,”preferredPlaybackScenarioURL({\”preferredPlaybacks\”:\”mp4AvcPlayback\”})”:”https://darkroom-clips.mlb.com/61e90683-c977-4619-9a59-077f923401a5.mp4″,”type”:”video”,”description”:”The data behind Max Fried’s outing”,”displayAsVideoGif”:true,”duration”:”00:00:25″,”slug”:”max-fried-s-outing-against-the-marlins-x5860″,”tags”:[{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”data-visualization”,”title”:”data visualization”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”PersonTag”,”slug”:”playerid-608331″,”title”:”Max Fried”,”person”:{“__ref”:”Person:608331″},”type”:”player”},{“__typename”:”GameTag”},{“__typename”:”TeamTag”,”slug”:”teamid-144″,”title”:”Atlanta Braves”,”team”:{“__ref”:”Team:144″},”type”:”team”}],”thumbnail”:{“__typename”:”Thumbnail”,”templateUrl”:”https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/nwgp7e9zfzg2ab5her9w”},”title”:”Max Fried’s outing against the Marlins”,”relativeSiteUrl”:”/video/max-fried-s-outing-against-the-marlins-x5860″},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”d’Arnaud views the sweeper as just Fried’s soft slider. The slider registers 86-87 mph and the sweeper sits around 79-81 mph.\n\nFried threw 15 hard sliders and just one “soft one” in his strong effort against the Marlins.\n\nDoes Fried wish he had leaned more heavily on the slider during his first few starts?\n\n“I’d say for sure,” Fried said. “That’s a really good pitch, and I guess I had forgotten about it a little bit. But I was able to use it to get me back into some counts, get ahead and get some nice ground balls.””,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Video”,”contentDate”:”2024-04-24T02:03:55.932Z”,”preferredPlaybackScenarioURL({\”preferredPlaybacks\”:\”mp4AvcPlayback\”})”:”https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2024/2024-04/23/66b8b388-539b7152-129aed01-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4″,”type”:”video”,”description”:”Braves manager Brian Snitker breaks down Max Fried’s dominant 92-pitch shutout in the win over the…
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