00:00Besides McClain, which young Mets pitcher do you think is most primed for a breakout?
00:05Really, there are three options.
00:06I'm going to push aside Justin Hageman.
00:08There's Jonah Tong, as we've talked about, Brandon Sprout.
00:11And coming back from Tommy John is Christian Scott.
00:14And I would say Christian Scott is the best one of the three.
00:17Jonah Tong, I can't emphasize this part enough.
00:19I have a lot of baseballs around here.
00:21And I used to throw a splitter in college.
00:25Really, it was a split changeup is what I called it.
00:27It kind of looked like a forkball.
00:28And I'm going to show you right now what it is.
00:30I threw one that was very much of a split across the ball.
00:33Now, what Jonah Tong does, he throws what's called a Vulcan change, where you do the whole thing with Spock.
00:38And you make it so that your middle finger and your ring finger are parted.
00:42And you stuff the ball in.
00:44This is so hard to replicate on every single pitch.
00:48It's not like a slider.
00:49Where with a slider, you know exactly which stitch on the ball you're going to put your fingers on, where you're going to put your thumb.
00:55You get one chance to jam this ball in between these fingers and hope that it's the right spot every time.
01:02It's why a splitter in general, any kind of it, especially a Vulcan one, why it's the most volatile pitch in baseball.
01:09I actually like splitters as your number three or number four pitch.
01:13It's not the pitch to get strikes and to play off of your number one.
01:16And that's the main problem with Jonah Tong, is that he doesn't have something else outside of the four-seamer.
01:22So, Jonah Tong, to me, more like a reliever, ultimately.
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