During his second spring game, Mets ace Kodai Senga threw a slow curveball to a Cardinals hitter. Like the ghost fork, the right-hander has a name for it.

Senga also worked on a tweaked slider that induced a violent whiff on a strikeout from Otto Lopez. Of his 31 pitches, 20 were strikes. He touched 96 mph with his four-seam fastball.

The New York Mets are going to need Kodai Senga to perform like he did in 2023 if they have a hope of returning to the NLCS. While this was most likely the case before spring training, it certainly has become so after starters Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas went down with relatively severe injuries.

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