Noah Cameron is Ridiculous

We may be officially entering “bonkers” territory with what Noah Cameron is doing since starting to call his own pitches. For the third straight outing, he was absolutely masterful while calling his own pitches, and this time he relied heavily on a pitch we haven’t seen him use all that much - the slider. I’ll get to the historical note on his last three outings in a second, but two things come to mind from what he did last night.

The first is that it takes a pretty impressive pitching performance, or a run of performances, to outshine a late-inning, game-winning home run. That’s what Michael Massey did. And two, I may have been more impressed by Cameron today than in either of his other two outings in this stretch.

I had the feeling in the early innings that he was right on the edge of implosion even though he was never in trouble. And it’s all because I didn’t think his changeup was doing anything for him, and he needs his changeup to do something for him to be successful. Maybe that’s why he utilized the slider so much, but I’m always impressed when someone does the thing even when they don’t have their best with them. He eventually found his changeup, and that led to him mowing down the Twins to end the outing for a second straight start. Let’s break it down.