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Comparable Players (Similarity Index 82)

Rank	Score	Name	Year	Run Average	Trend
1	90	J.R. Graham	2016	10.80
2	90	Luis Cessa	2018	5.44
3	88	John Lamb	2017	0.00	DNP
4	87	Justin Germano	2009	0.00	DNP
5	87	Tyler Duffey	2017	5.32
6	87	Marco Gonzales	2018	4.10
7	87	Robbie Erlin	2017	0.00	DNP
8	86	Chad Bettis	2015	4.38
9	86	Brock Stewart	2018	7.64
10	86	Matt Belisle	2006	4.05
11	86	Trevor Williams	2018	3.38
12	85	Billy Buckner	2010	11.77
13	85	Anthony DeSclafani	2016	3.72
14	85	Bobby Parnell	2011	4.40
15	85	Matt Barnes	2016	4.32
16	84	Jeff Manship	2011	8.10
17	84	Ben Hendrickson	2007	0.00	DNP
18	84	Taylor Jordan	2015	5.29
19	84	A.J. Cole	2018	7.08
20	84	Gonzalez Germen	2014	4.75
21	84	Scott Diamond	2013	5.98
22	84	Brandon Workman	2015	0.00	DNP
23	83	Buck Farmer	2017	7.13
24	83	Chad Green	2017	1.83
25	83	John Ely	2012	20.25
26	83	Andrew Werner	2013	0.00	DNP
27	83	Trevor May	2016	5.48
28	83	Jeff Karstens	2009	5.50
29	83	Matt Maloney	2010	3.05
30	83	Joe Saunders	2007	4.70
31	83	Carlos Carrasco	2013	6.94
32	83	Tony Pena	2008	4.71
33	83	Adam Conley	2016	3.98
34	82	Jeff Locke	2014	4.32
35	82	Kyle Lobstein	2016	3.96
36	82	Carlos Frias	2016	0.00
37	82	Taylor Rogers	2017	3.23
38	82	Tommy Milone	2013	4.78
39	82	Pat Misch	2008	5.85
40	82	T.J. House	2016	3.38
41	82	Aaron Brooks	2016	0.00	DNP
42	82	Dustin Moseley	2008	6.62
43	82	Cody Anderson	2017	0.00	DNP
44	82	Josh Collmenter	2012	3.89
45	81	Fernando Nieve	2009	3.19
46	81	Hayden Penn	2011	0.00	DNP
47	81	Shane Greene	2015	7.21
48	81	Sergio Mitre	2007	5.32
49	81	Roberto Hernandez	2007	3.27
50	81	Craig Stammen	2010	5.48
51	81	Rob Zastryzny	2018	4.76
52	81	Wei-Chung Wang	2018	0.00	DNP
53	81	Blake Treinen	2014	3.02
54	81	Juan Nicasio	2013	5.54
55	81	Trevor Bell	2013	0.00	DNP
56	81	Collin McHugh	2013	10.04
57	81	Sean Gilmartin	2016	7.13
58	81	Lance Broadway	2010	0.00	DNP
59	81	Tyler Cravy	2016	2.86
60	81	Mike Mayers	2018	4.88
61	81	Taylor Buchholz	2008	3.12
62	81	Doug Fister	2010	4.47
63	80	Elizardo Ramirez	2009	0.00	DNP
64	80	Enrique Gonzalez	2009	4.91
65	80	Tyler Lyons	2014	5.65
66	80	Lenny DiNardo	2006	8.08
67	80	Tyler Olson	2016	6.75
68	80	Allen Webster	2016	0.00	DNP
69	80	Brad Meyers	2012	0.00	DNP
70	80	John Maine	2007	4.24
71	80	Erik Davis	2013	3.12
72	80	Anthony Bass	2014	6.67
73	80	Ryan Yarbrough	2018	4.28
74	80	Cody Martin	2016	3.86
75	79	Zach Miner	2008	4.65
76	79	Josh Smith	2014	0.00	DNP
77	79	Jharel Cotton	2018	0.00	DNP
78	79	Ryan Webb	2012	4.48
79	79	Juan Gutierrez	2010	5.40
80	79	Alex Sanabia	2015	0.00	DNP
81	79	C.J. Wilson	2007	3.42
82	79	Cory Mazzoni	2016	0.00	DNP
83	79	Matt Packer	2014	0.00	DNP
84	79	Brandon Moore	2012	0.00	DNP
85	79	Adam Morgan	2016	6.43
86	79	Brian Flynn	2016	3.09
87	79	Shane Carle	2018	3.00
88	79	Zach Jackson	2009	10.38
89	79	P.J. Walters	2011	7.20
90	79	Nick Tropeano	2017	0.00	DNP
91	79	Mike Foltynewicz	2018	3.20
92	79	Erik Johnson	2016	8.33
93	79	Robert Ray	2010	2.45
94	78	Angel Guzman	2008	5.59
95	78	Mitchell Boggs	2010	3.88
96	78	Adam Warren	2014	3.09
97	78	Mike Ekstrom	2010	3.31
98	78	Mike Bolsinger	2014	6.19
99	78	Jameson Taillon	2018	3.25
100	78	Mike Kickham	2015	0.00	DNP

BP Annual Player Comments

Year		Comment
2019		Due to publishing agreements, the 2019 player comments and team essays are only available in the Baseball Prospectus 2019 book (available in hardcopy, and soon e-book and Kindle).
2018		The listed height and weight above seem generous; watching him pitch, one simply cannot buy that Gossett is as tall as Matt Joyce, or that he has filled out enough to weigh 185, or that he has even gone through puberty. Gossett does generate more velocity from his frame than you might think possible, which is why he was a major-college pitcher (Clemson) and a second-round pick, but his fastball is straight, which is why hitters teed off on him last year: His homers allowed extrapolate to 46 in a 200-inning season. Gossett peppers the bottom of the zone from an overhead slot, but his command has to be perfect, and Joe E. Brown covered the subject of perfection decades ago. If he doesn't add something to his game (turning one of his secondaries into a killer, adding some wiggle to his fastball, finally getting his growth spurt), he's probably a reliever soon enough, and not a high-leverage one.
2015		The 2014 second-round pick out of Clemson had a pleasant introduction to pro baseball, breezing through the New York-Penn League for a dozen well-crafted outings of two innings apiece. He has strong command of a low-90s fastball as well as a reliable changeup, which combination should allow him to move quickly up the ladder. Gossett's slider is a certified out pitch that will drive his strikeout totals. His delivery has some funk and mechanical inefficiency, including a long arm path that features a low pick up and a tall slot, so his future might rest in the bullpen if he struggles to endure a starter's workload.

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Daniel Gossett threw 2,080 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2017 and 2021, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2021, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (92mph) and Curve (78mph), also mixing in a Change (85mph) and Slider (85mph).