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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]
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 breaking pitch, usually a slider, curveball, or cut fastball that, due to its lateral motion, passes through a small part of the strike zone on the outside edge of the plate after seeming as if it would miss the plate entirely. It may not cross the front of the plate but only the back and thus have come in through the "back door".
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.
Across Rodón’s nine-year MLB career, he has thrown 15,540 total pitches — but never a cutter. That is, until now. ... A 95 mph fastball that’s recognizable out of the pitcher’s hand is a ...
The late-diving pitch, which verges on cutter status, first nudged past Kershaw’s fastball in usage in 2018 and has overtaken it entirely since 2021. This season, the future Hall of Famer has ...
While throwing the fastball it is very important to have proper mechanics, because this increases the chance of getting the ball to its highest velocity, making it difficult for the opposing player to hit the pitch. The cut fastball, split-finger fastball, and forkball are variations on the fastball with extra movement, and are sometimes called ...
Nolan Ryan's fastball was clocked at 100.9 mph in 1974, a time in which radar readings were measured near the plate instead of out of the hand. Some calculate the same pitch would be clocked at ...