The average four-seam has nine inches of rise, and the 20 pitchers that threw from the lowest arm slots averaged ten and half inches less rise. O’Day actually threw a fastball with eight inches of rise this year. So they’ve named it that, they just call it the Finch.” “Actually, I think she may throw harder than me. You know, the fast-pitch softball player, very famous,” O’Day said. “My teammates have affectionately named that pitch the Jennie Finch. O’Day said his teammates even have a name for that elevated fastball he throws. If you look at my results, you see more popups and flyouts because I do pitch up so much.” Traditionally, sidearmers are sinkerballers, they get a lot of groundball outs. It kind of keeps them off balance so that I can get them out down and away. “Lot of sidearmers have trouble elevating fastballs, but I elevate a four-seam fastball up and in on lefties. From Steve Melewski’s chat with Darren O’Day: We might have a modern one we can check out. We don’t have a lot of video in the vault for Kim, and this certainly doesn’t look like a big old rise ball: Of course, those could still be glitches. And Kim did that five times at the end of his career. And then you’re done with with the nice fastballs with 10-inch rise. Javier Lopez once got 9.5 inches of rise on a 92.1 mph fastball. Mike Myers once threw a 93.7 mph pitch with that much rise. If you plot all of the fastballs thrown by pitchers who release the ball 30 inches below their head or lower, Kim does stand out: Nobody else in the PITCHf/x era has thrown a pitch from that arm with ten inches of rise and 95 mph velocity. And, probably, Kim didn’t throw the rise ball every time out. He’s just barely above the line there, if you hover over you can see the names. (“Release point minus pitcher height” and “fastball rise” are significantly related with a. Kim does, indeed, show up as an outlier when you graph height-adjusted release point data against average vertical movement for the fastball. When he was throwing bullpens, he called it a riser.” But Byung-Hyun Kim? “He’s the only guy that could call it a riser. “I couldn’t replicate that riser,” he admitted. “I know if I’m up in the zone, something’s wrong,” Lopez said. “So it’ll come up, and ideally you want the up-down, but this one just goes up.”īut Lopez has only thrown a rising fastball on accident. “The slider has a tendency when you’re throwing it down here, to pop out of your hand up,” the Giants’ lefty said. By basically throwing a slider from down under, you can get the backspin to give the pitch rise. Look for the submarine pitch that looks the most like the three-quarter arm slot “fastball.” Looks like it’s the slider. Spin on the ball for each pitch given a submarine arm slot. Spin on the ball for each pitch given a traditional three-quarters arm slot. Take a look at the different spins on the ball from up top and down under for each grip, thanks to this excellent article by Matt Lenztner on The Hardball Times. In fact, take a close look at the grip that Basch models for the riser.
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