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Mitchell Gladstone
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| Updated July 11, 2021 at 5:07 p.m.
Driving back from Santiago to Santo Domingo, Seattle Mariners Director of Dominican Operations Eddy Toledo called his boss, Tim Kissner.
It was January 2017, a full 18 months before the Mariners would eventually sign Julio Rodriguez to a $1.75 million bonus, yet Toledo was sure of the player he d just seen. He said, I just saw a player that I would give every dime in our [international] pool budget for, Kissner said, recalling his conversation with Toledo. And I go, Eddie, we don t even know what that is. We both kind of laughed and he goes, I know but whatever it is, I want to give it to him.
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That fastball usage is at near
all-time lows in the big leagues is something we all know pretty well. That, of course, means more breaking and off-speed stuff, more of those frisbee-looking pitches that make us fans wonder “how does anyone ever hit a baseball?” and cause more and more whiffs and slow walks back to the dugout.
This, of course, is old news. Since pitch types have been tracked starting in 2002, the percentage of fastballs (four-seam and sinkers) has steadily gone down from 64.4% in ‘02 to just 50.9% so far in 2021. And the pitch that is the mastermind behind that sharp decrease? The
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