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2. Mason Miller, Athletics
You can't hit what you can't see, and hitters had a difficult time making any contact against Miller's blink-and-you-will-miss-it fastball last season. Thanks to a four-seamer that averaged 100.9 mph, Miller logged a 41.8% strikeout rate, the best in the game among pitchers who threw at least 60 innings. His 70.9% in-zone contact rate was the third-lowest, and his 5.0 hits-per-nine-innings rate tied for seventh. Miller saved 28 games during his rookie year and posted a solid 2.49 ERA over 65 frames, but even that indicated a little bit of bad luck as his expected ERA was an MLB-best 1.77.
https://www.mlb.com/news/2025-mlb-players-survey-best-pitchers-for-game-7
You can't hit what you can't see, and hitters had a difficult time making any contact against Miller's blink-and-you-will-miss-it fastball last season. Thanks to a four-seamer that averaged 100.9 mph, Miller logged a 41.8% strikeout rate, the best in the game among pitchers who threw at least 60 innings. His 70.9% in-zone contact rate was the third-lowest, and his 5.0 hits-per-nine-innings rate tied for seventh. Miller saved 28 games during his rookie year and posted a solid 2.49 ERA over 65 frames, but even that indicated a little bit of bad luck as his expected ERA was an MLB-best 1.77.
https://www.mlb.com/news/2025-mlb-players-survey-best-pitchers-for-game-7
