Caesar’s. Sean Burke has cleared this strikeout line in seven straight outings. In the eight before, he was just 2/8, so I dug into what’s propelled the surge (+4.6% swinging strike rate) without a meaningful change in velocity, spin or pitch mix. What it seems to be is that Burke lowered his arm angle on his four-seamer, creating a tunneling effect with his breaking balls which are thrown at similar launch points. The result has his fastball, slider and knuckle curve’s whiff rates all ticked up. And I’m happy to test this theory against the Guardians who have the fourth highest called plus swinging strike rate over the last 30 days, and the fifth highest K% against righties over the same span (25%).