Tag: Pitching

…and so it seemed, extension doesn’t matter.
But could it?

If there’s one pitch that hasn’t yet been fully explained, that would be the Gyro Sliders. Not all of them, some of them. These Sliders seem normal, but they are spectacular. I’m about to tell you that they aren’t normal; they use Seam-Shifted Wakes.

Early on, we’ve realized that the best fastballs weren’t necessarily the highest spinning ones.
It’s the movement that matters.
What does “cutting the fastball” look like?

シュート, or Shuuto(“Shoot” but with a Japanese accent), is a pitch that sort of “doesn’t exist” in the American baseball.
But it does exist. Here’s the explanation.