Kyle Muller — Ceiling and Comparisons
The Ceiling
Part of me wants to believe Muller has a ceiling as a number two starter, but I just can’t get on board with that after watching him a few more times again.
I do think he has a pretty safe ceiling as a number three if he can learn to command his pitches better and attack the zone.
He has the pitches to be an effective big leaguer as we’ve already seen, now it’s just about finding that consistency.
Comparisons
Very different arm action, but as far as size and pitch mix goes, Muller is actually very comparable to Madison Bumgarner.
The big difference there is the command with Bumgarner having one of the best BB% in all of baseball early in his career at around 4-5 percent, while Muller is struggling at around 12 percent.
But MadBum was primarily four-seam, slider, and curveball coming up and even had years where he threw his slider more than his fastball, which I could see Muller doing at times.