This 30 Year Old "Rookie" Was 2023’s Most Surprising Ace 

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Dude he was solid. They worked him on a stretched schedule and he basically had to be our Ace instantly. He was fantastic his first year

Senga WILL be even better... Why? Cause his biggest issues were in the first half cause he wasnt used to the MLB culture.

Nolan Ryan also walked everyone and is regarded as one of the best pitchers ever

I chalk up the first couple of months to adjustment period. What he accomplished after those first couple of months was impressive, regardless of who was doing it. I expect year 2 for him to be on par or better than year 1, barring injury.

this is secretly a Blake Snell video

He flipped the scouting report script in his last away game vs AZ

The game he pitched home against the Phillies was one of the most dominant displays of pitching I’ve seen in the last 20 years. That ghost forkball was dancing like crazy. Phils hitters were stupefied by it. I think his tendency to be a bit wild with his fastball really makes him tougher to hit.

I dislike how some people say Japanese players shouldn't be considered rookies but those same people say that the NPB isn't even close to MLB or even AAA level. If the NPB is such a bad league like they say why can't Senga or Yoshida be considered a rookie?

I remember him pitching against Team US in the 2017 WBC.

The graphic at 11:52 is actually hilarious, as out of context it makes it look like Jaime Barria is a better pitcher than Kodai Senga, Shane McClanahan, Shohei Ohtani, Clayton Kershaw, and Sonny Gray

He finished his rookie year with a 2.98 era. Nothing weird about that.

Fastball and forkball of senga is always devastating thanks to my team Fukuoka Softbank hawks and especially thanks to his handwork fyi the hawks team are very damn good at developing pitcher because every season are ridiculously high spin rate and velocity whether fastball and breaking balls because I watch the pitchers of hawks especially training camp via YT and also articles not only pitcher but hitters too the batter of hawks are good especially the barrel and bat control another information :) and lastly developmental player's of hawks are no joke when they play baseball

Someone teach this man how to cook steak

His Fork Pitch is fun to use in MLB the show. One! Two! I'm putting a fork in you!

Watched the whole vid. Don't get how any of this is weird... especially since I watched most of Senga's starts as a Mets fan.

Sengoat

Video on rangers soon?

Time will tell. He could end up like Dice-K or Tanaka. We will see. Hopefully he walks less hitters in the upcoming seasons to lessen the chance of more on baserunners scoring. It was also his first season in MLB, which is a huge change. Like fellow rookie Masataka Yoshida, I'm sure the longer travel and more games played factored into his initial adjustment period.

God damn man. Those steaks looked bad! Great vid though

I have a forkball like Senga It’s just not as accurate But it is nasty And my 4-seam acts like a cutter and sometimes a slurve for some reason

I love SoftBank, its a shame we fell off near the end of the year.

man you fucked up that steak LMAO

Bro got the good cuts of meat just to cook them into leather

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10:39 Gee, It's almost like they weren't really rookies or something.

Do a video on gms

Japanese rookie throwing forkball? Remember Hideo Nomo 1995 ROY CYA4th K%30.3(2nd) BB%10.0 Ks236 (2nd) K/9 11.1(2nd) AVG.178(1st) WHIP1.06(3rd) ERA2.54(3rd)

Senga will opt out after 2025. He is grossly underpaid. 2nd in ROY and tops in CY. He's an ace and deserves a lot more.

Blake Snell OP

I would suggest he just had a harder time gripping the MLB baseball. Then his hand got stronger. I think the fork can lead to elbow problems pretty quickly. He does have the best one since Nomo.

I know you did that because of Halloween.

That steak looked like a piece of shit!

a bright spot in the mets' crappy season

Well yes Mets are a struggle

explain this in Ohtani terms

蒲郡とか豊橋とかの奴らはなんか骨ある奴多いよなあ。 朝倉未来とかもあの辺やろ。

wants to be foolish bailey so bad.

If kodai was on the braves he would be the shit, if strider was on the mets no one would give a shit

Set speed to 1.25x

Part of me wishes we traded for Senga instead of Mad Max.

His success depends on playing his ghost fork off of his fastball. So his success will decline with his fastball velo.

Who wants to bet Mutts will deal off Senga?

I’m a Met fan, and I know I’m going to get hated on by fellow Met fans about this, but I remain a little skeptical of Senga’s long-term prospects for MLB success, even though his season line turned out to be better than I expected. (The team, however, performed almost exactly as I predicted, as I picked them to finish 4th with around 75-78 wins.) Not to go through a laundry list of concerns, but he’s almost completely reliant on a pitch-the forkball-that has a VERY low zone rate. His four-seamer has never missed many bats despite its velocity, even in NPB, and he doesn’t command it that well. His cutter improved over the course of the year, but it’s not a pitch that misses bats, either. His slider was the only other pitch with a swinging strike rate above 10%, but it was still below-average in that department, and it got hit very hard, due to his poor command of it. I also think he’s a big injury risk; he was twice shut down with elbow issues in 2022, and the Mets apparently weren’t thrilled with the results of his physical, which likely explains why he didn’t get more money. And he’ll be 31 next season. I suspect that what we saw during the second half of 2023 was peak Senga, which isn’t to say he can’t replicate that level of performance, but I’d be surprised if he exceeded it for any significant period of time. Having said all of that, I was impressed that he seemed to make adjustments fairly quickly. However, it’s a little too much to expect a 31-year-old to suddenly develop plus command, for example, so while I now believe his floor is higher than I originally thought, I still think his ceiling is that of a #2 starter. Unfortunately, the Mets don’t appear to have a future ace in the system, barring an out-of-nowhere situation à la Jacob deGrom (pls come home Jake 😢), and the free agent SP market this offseason isn’t that strong. I don’t expect the Mets to be contenders for at least another season or two anyway, so perhaps it’s just as well.

First to a Sportstorm video 🫡

His season wasn't that weird