Hope: A Forrest story

Most here know his story. Middle of the first round draft pick out of San Antonio who became a top 25 prospect in the game and then proceeded to not pitch for 2 seasons and battled injuries over his past two seasons. He is now 26 years old and essentially in his make or break season as I believe he is out of options unless we successfully petition for more due to medical reasons. Right off the bat the thing that made people fall in love with Whitley was his pitches. His fastball, curveball, and changeup graded out at a 60 and his slider and cutter graded out at a 55 meaning he was viewed as throwing all plus pitches. So here’s the reason to remain positive. His 2023 stats in sugar land. His ERA wasn’t pretty but he held his opponents to a .205 BAA and got about 1.52 GO/AO ratio. A ratio similar to hunter brown who was considered a good ground ball pitcher during his time in sugar land. More importantly Forrest held RHB to a .582 OPS in the pacific division which is nothing to overlook (notably his BAA and his OPS against for RHB is better than arrighetti). His command became a problem but there is certainly reason for hope here. Forrests body may never allow him to be a starter but I firmly believe that he has the capabilities to be a high leverage reliever.