CLAY RAPADA-RP (Rangers)
Delivery: there is NO from the set at the waist, glove up at head level, sidearmed, with a near stand-up delivery in the game...
Seay is not good, because the glove is up high at the set...and the dead-down follow-thru
Moylan aint the worse, but it's a bit too slow when synched up with the actual delivery
I'm going with Fuentes, and there's a few things I HATE about this delivery too!!!
There are only TWENTY...count 'em...TWENTY sidearm/submarine deliveries in this game.....
He throws:
4-seam 86mph
slider 78mph
*** (replacing change with) 2-seam 85mph
sweeping curve 75mph
cutter 86mph
*** in the two September games (54 pitches thrown) what I saw with MY eyes and compared with pitch break/fx were contradictory...
In this game out of the box, they say change up at about 81mph. On the pitch break/fx, EVERYTHING that was identified as a change up came in at 83-84mph. Not once, was a self-described change up on pitch break/fx tracked at 81...
On most of these very pitches, the ball moved like a sinking 2-seam; down and away from right-handed batters. Since his regular fastball and cutter were at about 86mph, I'm going with a 2-seamer @ 85mph.
Yes, some guys throw mid 80's changes, but they also have fastballs at about 95mph also--he doesn't come close.
Delivery: there is NO from the set at the waist, glove up at head level, sidearmed, with a near stand-up delivery in the game...
Seay is not good, because the glove is up high at the set...and the dead-down follow-thru
Moylan aint the worse, but it's a bit too slow when synched up with the actual delivery
I'm going with Fuentes, and there's a few things I HATE about this delivery too!!!
There are only TWENTY...count 'em...TWENTY sidearm/submarine deliveries in this game.....
He throws:
4-seam 86mph
slider 78mph
*** (replacing change with) 2-seam 85mph
sweeping curve 75mph
cutter 86mph
*** in the two September games (54 pitches thrown) what I saw with MY eyes and compared with pitch break/fx were contradictory...
In this game out of the box, they say change up at about 81mph. On the pitch break/fx, EVERYTHING that was identified as a change up came in at 83-84mph. Not once, was a self-described change up on pitch break/fx tracked at 81...
On most of these very pitches, the ball moved like a sinking 2-seam; down and away from right-handed batters. Since his regular fastball and cutter were at about 86mph, I'm going with a 2-seamer @ 85mph.
Yes, some guys throw mid 80's changes, but they also have fastballs at about 95mph also--he doesn't come close.
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