Why Is No One Talking About Patrick Corbin?

I have come to the conclusion that I am developing an unhealthy obsession with dissecting how MLB players are mechanically improving from one year to the next. First, it started with Chris Davis, then I covered Adam Wainwright, then came Marco Scutaro, and then Bartolo Colon, and next came Max Scherzer, and now Patrick Corbin is on the lab table.  But the difference with Corbin and all of the preceding dissections, other than probably Colon, is that no one seems to pay much attention to Corbin's immense success. I generally aim to write articles about players before they become mainstream. But in this case, I am upset that Corbin's story is not mainstream by now.  It is nearly the All-Star break and the Diamondback ace, who sports a 10-1 record with a 2.40 ERA, has not gotten half of the attention that other young aces like Matt Harvey have gotten. The reason is simple: America has a monster east coast bias. With the possible exception of players in Los Angeles, sports fan...