2011 Bowman Chrome Draft auto blue refractor Blake Snell 1st. I know he’s a Dodger and a lot of people don’t like the Dodgers but Blake Snell is a real cool hand. Snellzilla used to struggle the third time through a lineup, and everyone in baseball knew it. Hitters would lean in, confident they’d figured him out. One season, instead of backing off, Snell leaned harder into the chaos throwing fewer fastballs, more breaking balls, and trusting pitches most guys only use as surprises. Some nights it looked reckless. Then the strikeouts piled up. By the end, the same hitters who once waited him out were walking back to the dugout shaking their heads, realizing Snell didn’t beat them with consistency he beat them by refusing to be predictable.
