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An animated diagram of a cutter. In baseball, a cut fastball or cutter is a type of fastball that breaks toward the pitcher's glove-hand side, as it reaches home plate. [1] This pitch is somewhere between a slider and a four-seam fastball, as it is usually thrown faster than a slider but with more movement than a typical fastball. [1]
A cutter is a fastball with a hint of a slider’s bite. It flies either straight or slightly to the pitcher’s glove side, where the other types of fastballs tend to move to the arm side.
The cutter or cut fastball, is a pitch that blurs the lines between a four-seam fastball and a slider. The pitcher typically shifts their grip on a four-seam fastball to the side of the ball, and slightly supinates their wrist to convert some backspin into gyroscopic spin.
A cut fastball or cutter is a fastball that has lateral movement. A "cut fastball" is similar to a slider that is more notable for its speed than its lateral movement.
He’s got a fastball, he’s got a curveball, he’s got a slider, he’s got a changeup and a cutter. He’s got the repertoire to be really good. Next is the execution part.
The prototypical slider is designed to look like a fastball and sit in a velocity band just below the fastball but swerve down and to the pitcher’s glove side just before reaching the plate.
A split-finger fastball or splitter is an off-speed pitch in baseball that initially looks like a fastball from the batters perspective, but then drops suddenly. Derived from the forkball , it is aptly named because the pitcher puts the index and middle finger on different sides of the ball.
The fastball is still the most common pitch, but he’s also using the slider a whopping 32.7% of the time (a greater share than it has in his overall mix), and the cutter about 19% of the time.