05-05-2017, 11:14 AM
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Re: #OSFM 17: Chicago Cubs World Series Champions
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Originally Posted by OhioCub |
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Actually, sinker is right for him. Going by pitch fx, which is always more accurate than what we visually see, he has quite a bit less lateral movement than alot of 2-seamers. What makes it look like so much is the lower velocity, which is also the same reason he should have a sinker. A 2-seamer with that low of velocity should always be a sinker. What gives the sinker its sink is the effect of gravity and a lower velocity pitch is always going to sink more than a high velocity pitch. Our eyes are trained in such a way that we don't visually perceive sink as much as we see lateral movement. That's why they call high 4-seamers rising fastballs sometimes. They have so much backspin that, to our eyes, they appear to defy gravity and appear to rise, even though they don't. Anyway, enough about that.
For the cut change, I've looked through everything and unless you make it a breaking ball (which I wouldn't recommend as it's a different type of break) there is nothing. circle changes drop and fade, vulcan changes drop and fade, straight changes just drop, as do splitters, forkballs and palmballs, which I believe covers the entire offspeed category. I'm leaning towards just using circle change as his main changeup and a straight change as his cut change. The cutter, even with lower velocity, doesn't sink the way it should.
As for Arrieta, his slider is a slider. The only reason some announcers call it a cutter is because in the past he's thrown it 90+ mph. He doesn't have the backspin on it to call it a true cutter though. A cutter should tail but also have enough backspin that it doesn't sink all that much. A slider should tail and sink because if thrown perfectly it should have no topspin or backspin either way, only lateral spin. Last year Arrieta's slider only had, on average, 2.44 inches of backspin. Compare that to Kenley Jansen's cutter and you'll see he had, on average, 9.22 inches of backspin on average. Both elite pitches but obviously different. Ironically, Jansen's slider could be classified as a slurve as it has 1.88 inches of topspin on average.
If you're interested I could post my personal pitch edits for the Cubs pitchers.
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I'd love to see your pitch edits.
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