Sentences with phrase «more fastballs»

MLB pitchers who have undergone Tommy John surgery threw on average 7 percent more fastballs than pitchers who had no surgery.

You know, Mr. No - Nonsense, the guy who could always dig a little deeper for one more fastball, who always put winning and his team first.

Not exact matches

While Halladay remains one of thegame's best, injuries to Dustin McGowan and Shaun Marcum have left the BlueJays with 24 - year - old Jesse Litsch as the only reliable arm behind Halladay.During a midseason demotion last year Litsch cut down on throwing his cutterand relied more on a four - seam fastball that made him a more overpoweringpitcher down the stretch.

By my eyes, batters are seeing more breaking pitches, so they're expecting them, and so the fastball in odd counts is catching them off guard.

He's probably thrown more sliders than fastballs.

Looks like he's varying speed more on his fastball and changeup now.

He would benefit from the Astros approach of throwing fewer fastballs and more breaking stuff.

AndI think you'll see Roger, as he makes more starts, gain a couple of more clickson his fastball with a little more finish to it, that late life.»

Johnson's 97 - mph fastball has become even more feared since he gained control of two excellent sliders, one that breaks hard down - and - in to righthanders and the other a «backdoor» job that starts outside the strike zone and catches the edge of the plate.

A college pitcher with more mph on the fastball but lesser secondary pitches?

Afterward, he said, «I tried to throw cheese [good fastballs], but it wasn't a sharp cheddar, it was more like a soft Brie.»

«He's much more aggressive with his fastball and slider this year,» says Catcher Terry Kennedy.

As the average fastball in baseball starts ticking up into the mid-90s, there are going to be more latent Arrietas than not.

Nonetheless, as Dodgers minor league director Charlie Blaney says, «It's getting more and more difficult to find prospects with an average major league fastball — 85 to 89 on the gun.»

On the other hand, the average fastball will actually drop significant more at Coors Field.

(While his fastball has hit a top speed of 96 mph, it is more often clocked at around 90.)

The American League long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastballs.

And hitless no more, as he goes the other way on a Sabathia fastball to pick up his first knock of the series.

Considering all he throws are fastballs and how little wear there is on his arm, I feel like the A's could throw doolittle out there for more 2 inning stints and make clippard the closer.

[Dwightl Gooden is more overpowering, but when he gets behind 2 - 0, Gooden's going to come at you with the fastball.

Little League did not institute a ban on curve balls, and, in light of new research suggesting that the pitch does not, contrary to conventional wisdom, put more strain on a young pitcher's elbow than other pitches (indeed, the research suggests curveballs place less stress on the elbow than a fastball), was perhaps correct in not doing so.

«Our findings suggest that throwing a high percentage of fastballs rather than off - speed pitches puts more stress on the elbow,» says Robert Keller, M.D., chief resident in Henry Ford's Department of Orthopedic Surgery and the study's lead author.

In general managers with more experience don't outperform the greenhorns, but they don't seem to lose their fastball either.