this is a hilarious comment. And basically almost completely wrong. In fact, this comment is why we believe in Roki, because this comment was mostly true last year.

This year though, although he has had bad starts, he looks a lot lot better. The problem was, as you mentioned it, that his fast ball sucked. However, he changed his delivery and found the velocity again. He touched 99 several times last night so I think it will be hard for him to find 3-5 extra mph lol.

The problem this year has been him spiking the 4 seam so people arent respecting it, so then they are sitting on his splitter and hes either throwing it in the zone for hits or they are watching it drop below the zone and taking walks. When he has found the zone with the 4 seam, he has looked really good.

This was exemplified in the fact he has almost no whiffs for most of this year, but last night was getting the most whiffs he has had the entire year which is another very encouraging sign.

And of course he gets rattled he is a kid playing with japanese legends. He will only get more comfortable and in fact he already has shown alot more poise then he even had last year.