There are a few trends that have become something like the natural laws of modern baseball: Unencumbered, strikeouts go up, game times get longer, and fastball usage goes down. MLB has stepped in on the game time front and has attempted to work on the strikeouts indirectly, but the fastball graph isstill looking like a smooth, if slow, downward slope.
— said his process for helping a pitcher build his plan has shifted away from fastballs and toward movement-based pitches. He will often begin by trying to locate a pitcher's natural talents, such as how they release the ball or what type of movement their max-effort throws have.
How we categorize and tally cutters might decide the answer to the fastball vs. slider question on a technicality, but the function of that pitch — essentially half-fastball, half-slider — hints at a deeper understanding of why this conversation is happening at all. “He's found a route to more or less throw these hybrid type of pitches that aren't considered traditional fastballs, but you can use a cutter in an extremely, extremely similar fashion as a replacement for a four-seam fastball,” Langin said.With the cutter included in the slider category, Zombro sees a future in which fastballs take a back seat, though he worries about the health question that tags along behind any pitching innovation.
Baltimore Orioles starter Dean Kremer was part of the wave of pitchers who added a sweeper, in part because it gave him a swing-and-miss offering for right-handed hitters. Yet he said fastballs were an important baseline.
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