What Logan Webb told ex-Giants teammate Blake Snell to improve his pitching

Former Giants pitcher Blake Snell has been electric for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2025 MLB Postseason. Snell has been one of baseball’s best starters in the postseason with a 3-1 record and 2.42 ERA. In his three starts prior to the World Series, Snell logged at least 6.0 innings pitched and nine strikeouts in each game, including an eight-inning gem in Game 1 of the NLCS in which he allowed just one hit and struck out 10 batters. Struggling with high walk totals and pitch counts early in his career, Snell never went more than 5 2/3 innings pitched in a postseason game before this season. That all changed when he teamed up with Giants’ ace Logan Webb. “Going to San Francisco, that’s where I learned how to pitch,” Snell said in an interview with TNT’s pregame show after his NLCS gem. “I was around Logan Webb, and man, he’s going seven innings, it’s like every game he’s going seven innings. And I just would talk to him — how are you doing it, what are you thinking of?” Webb, speaking with Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins on MLB’s “The 6-11 Podcast”, explained the advice he...