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  2. Cut fastball - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Fastball - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    A belt-high, very hittable fastball, usually down the middle of the plate. As used by Bob McClure, former Red Sox Pitching Coach: "When you throw a cock-shot fastball just above the belt, right down the middle, you're hoping they don't swing. A lot of times, that gets hit out of the ballpark." [69]

  5. Are sliders destined to overtake fastballs as baseball's ...

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    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.

  6. Shuuto - Wikipedia

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    The two-seam fastball, the sinker, and the screwball, in differing degrees, move down and in towards a right-handed batter when thrown, or in the opposite manner of a curveball and a slider. The shuuto is often confused with the gyroball , perhaps because of an article by Will Carroll [ 4 ] that erroneously equated the two pitches.

  7. Brusdar Graterol has the 'best stuff on the planet.' So why ...

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    The 24-year-old Venezuelan threw a cut-fastball — mostly to left-handers — that averaged 95.6 mph with a 22-inch drop but virtually no horizontal break last season, which is why batters hit ...

  8. The man who threw 115 MPH: Legendary flame-thrower made his ...

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    Everything was a fastball and it was all over the place at the time." Chalk said if Dalkowski had a pitching coach like players have today he could have been an outstanding major-league pitcher.

  9. Circle changeup - Wikipedia

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    A circle change can also be used to provide movement like a two seam fastball but without the stress placed on the arm by a traditional screwball [citation needed].By placing the index and ring fingers slightly to the inside (that is, towards the thumb) of the ball and sharply pronating the forearm at release, a pitcher can make the ball move downward and inside.