The hard-throwing reliever goes just as hard while trying to enjoy himself as a Twitch streamer, a YouTuber and an old school DJ.
The 6-foot-5 May paired a dominating, upper 90s rising fastball with an altered changeup grip that created a swing-and-miss pitch to go along with a newly developed hard slider. It resulted in May walking just six and registering 25 strikeouts over his final 16.2 innings last season. It also resulted in May having a lot of fun again in the game.
“I was pretty specific about what I was looking for this year,” May said. “I honestly surprised myself with how specific and how strongly I wanted to be in the area. I’m very happy that I was able to stick to my guns a little bit and really go for a place that I felt I was going to be valued and that was gonna be a lot of fun playing.”
“If you can’t approach it, at least sometimes, from a point of levity, you’ll just go crazy,” May said. His peculiar profile is analogous to those of Stephen Vogt, Liam Hendriks, Sean Doolittle, Brandon McCarthy, Bassitt and Brett Anderson, all of whom became A’s fan favorites for their unpretentiousness, snarky humor and for simply embracing their inner weirdness.“I think there’s a lot of space to be yourself and just be crazy,” May said. “I’m growing my first beard of my life right now because I’m now an Oakland A and I want to have a beard.
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