Trevor May’s Secret Gift To Baseball.

The 31-year-old righty reliever, with whom the Mets reportedly agreed on a two-year deal on Tuesday, is coming off a 2020 season in which he struck out nearly 40% of the batters he faced and averaged 14.66 strikeouts per nine innings, ranking sixth among relievers in K/9 and 11th in strikeout rate.

May’s strikeout numbers were good coming into this year — he had an 11.05 K/9 and 29.7% strikeout rate in 2019 — but now they’re great.

He’s throwing faster fastballs, and higher fastballs

His fastball is getting to the hitter more than five inches higher than it was in 2016, and while he was barely throwing half of his fastballs up in the zone before his surgery, he’s now elevating more than two thirds of them.