Nick Pollack and Ben Palmer are back to talk all things Starting Pitching in Fantasy Baseball in Episode 34 of On The Corner. This week, they discuss Joe Biagini, Jimmy...
Nick Pollack and Ben Palmer are back to talk all things Starting Pitching in Fantasy Baseball in Episode 34 of On The Corner. This week, they discuss Joe Biagini, Jimmy Nelson, Chase Anderson, Justin Verlander, Alex Wood, Steven Matz, Taijuan Walker, Felix Hernandez, and many others.
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Fewer pitch classifications are just worse analysis. We may as well call everything either a fastball or a change if we want to misdiagnose pitches. Slurve is a derogatory term generally speaking, which is why pitchers don’t use it often. Guys that can’t throw a 12-6 CB or a 2-8 slider don’t have a choice in what they are going to throw – something in between, that I would call sloppy. If everyone could, they would throw two distinct pitches – slurves are for the rest of them. It also makes sense that computers would have a hard time defining the difference in break from a slider and a curve – which is the real reason this conversation exists. Machines should never be driving this conversation, but they are because pitchFX says nothing is a slurve.