Nathan Eovaldi is back with the Texas Rangers. He also tries a new weapon

Surprise, ariz. – It is not as if Nathan Eovaldi and the Texas Rangers are separated for so long last winter. On November 4th there was game.

Evaldi hired his repertoire in the 5-2 defeat of the Rangers against the Kansas City Royals on Friday in the Surprise Stadium with 5-2 fasting with two souls in Kansas City Royals. The pitch-that ideally has a strong horizontal break that means that it “runs”-has the sixth place in Eovaldi’s arsenal next to a fast ball, splitter, cutter, slider and a rarely used curve ball. His repertoire has not changed since he dropped his change before the 2018 season.

The 35-year-old worked on the field last winter with the hope that he can “open the outer part of the plate a little more for me”. Eovaldi liked the Trackman data results he saw in the low season and plans to optimize them this spring.

“In my opinion, you can’t really do that in the season because I think injuries happen,” said Eovaldi. “I worked on this offseason. It depends on trust and do it properly. “

On the subject of execution: Eovaldi said that his two -seater was not so big today and admitted that he thrown it too far into the zone and made his normally evil splinters too crooked. Each of the two goals that Evaldi allowed (a Jonathan India Leadoff single in the first inning and a single from Nick Lofton in the second) came on the splitter that he thought the opponents for an average of 0.200 last season.

“Today I think I was a little quick with everything,” said Eovaldi. “So (the two -seater is) a little bit that you can work on. I’m not finished yet, I still believe in it, I think it will be a good weapon for me. “

Eovaldi allowed two deserved runs with two goals, a walk and a hit from Pitch in Two Innings during his spring debut. He threw 19 of his 33 pitches for strikes and his fastball reached 95.7 miles per hour.

“I thought he was pretty good,” said Rangers manager Bruce Bochy. “He was Nate. He used all of his parking spaces, threw blows, I thought he did a good job. “

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