You may not know the Brewers' latest call-up yet, but his insane fastball will give you a reason to

Tobias Myers’ reputation precedes him – in multiple ways.

Many who know of Myers in the baseball community remember his name as being the player the Cleveland Guardians traded for when they gave up Junior Caminero, who is now considered a top-10 prospect in baseball.

Take a bit deeper of a dive around the Milwaukee Brewers organization, and you will hear more about Myers' arsenal, which is the darling of analytically-minded evaluators everywhere.

But now in the major leagues for the first time after bouncing around the minors across six different organizations in parts of eight seasons, Myers is hoping to make a reputation of his own.

“I just want to compete in the moment,” Myers said. “Just being able to compete 1-on-1 with the other guy. That’s one advantage I would say I have.”

Myers, who was called up from Class AAA Nashville on Wednesday by the Brewers, will make his MLB debut the first time he steps foot on the mound, which is likely to happen in the coming days. If the pitching looks anything like it did in his three outings so far this year in Nashville, people may take some notice.

The surface numbers for Myers say plenty on their own this year.

He allowed three earned runs in 14 ⅔ innings, striking out 19 while allowing only 11 hits. The right-hander got a called or swinging strike on 33% of his pitches in total, including generating an impressive 18 whiffs – the fourth-most in any Class AAA individual outing this year — in his second start and did it in just 5 ⅔ innings.

But that’s still only three starts. The specific pitch characteristics say even more.

Myers’ most eye-popping metric is the induced vertical break he gets on his four-seam fastball.

IVB measures how much vertical break a pitcher is getting on his fastball by removing gravity from the equation and looking at how much a pitch moves up or down from a midway point of zero. An MLB average four-seamer gets roughly 16 inches of IVB. Anything above that gives something of a “rising” effect to the hitter. An above-average IVB is around 18 inches, while 20 and above is considered elite.

Myers has averaged 20.2 inches of IVB this year in AAA, which would rank fourth in the majors out of 206 pitchers who have thrown at least 50 four-seamers. Because of the unique way Myers' fastball moves, by the time it gets to the hitting zone, it's often a few inches above where the hitter anticipated it being, leading to whiffs, fouls or pop-ups. This is the key for getting swings and misses with the heater despite its relatively pedestrian velocity at 94 mph.

Myers doesn’t know how, exactly, he generates so much carry to his fastball. It’s just natural movement, he says. But regardless of how it happens, what’s important is that the Brewers have made him very aware of it and how to make the most of it.

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“I think the fastball obviously on paper is better,” Myers said. “But I think it comes from that confidence that they have my back and they want me to be me and be myself. That has sharpened all my other pitches.”

Myers’ next-best pitch is his slider, which he didn’t start throwing until midway through last season. Results with the slider were immediate, too. Myers had a 6.01 ERA through his first 15 starts with Class AA Biloxi; he finished the year with a 3.79 ERA over the final 14 outings.

Myers gets 5.2 inches of gloveside movement on the slider, which is a tick above average relative to its average velocity at 84 mph. It’s gotten whiffs on five of nine swings this year so far.

Myers also features a cutter, which is his second-most primary pitch after his four-seam, a changeup and a curve.

Myers knows the numbers work in his favor when it comes to his repertoire, and he believes the biggest reason for his recent jump comes from less thinking and more trust in his stuff.

“They were just telling me to be me,” Myers said. “Telling me to get back to me and not being so robotic out there on the mound. I like to think of myself as an athlete so I just needed to get back to moving naturally and moving at a good speed.”

How does that look when he’s on the mound?

“It’s just digging that foot in the ground and going right at a hitter versus trying to hit a spot,” Myers said.

Soon, he will get the chance to dig that foot in on big-league ground.

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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers call up Tobias Myers, whose fastball gets insane carry