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" ... As a rule, offspeed pitches outperformed fastball variants across the board, though a portion of their effectiveness is clearly derived from their ability to play off of the harder stuff. Either the slider or the changeup was the most effective pitch in baseball last season, with the former missing more bats and the latter more skillfully managing contact. ... "
" ... So my thought process went, let’s pencil in a very high grade for Woodruff’s four-seamer moving forward, and hope that he can develop one of his offspeed pitches into a plus offering. ... "
" ... The last question is whether Bumgarner can find new life as a pitcher who relies more on offspeed stuff. He did, after all, post a very good ERA last year, and he may have been leveraging his home ball park, which absorbs fly balls better than any other. His curve and cutter both induced whiffs at better than a 20% rate with minimal damage. The curve especially looks like a pitch he ought to experiment with throwing more and more until he hits diminishing returns. Bumgarner has long excelled at keeping hitters off balance, and he may find the optimal mix of stuff to keep it up. How easy that is will depend on how much velocity and spin he's working with, and we will know that within a few starts. ... "
" ... To reiterate these are pitches considered by Statcast to be in the heart of the plate. These are poorly located fastballs, challenge fastballs and hanging offspeed pitches. The Giants not only don’t hit these pitches hard, they don’t do much with them at all. ... "
" ... “I was a little frustrated and made just kind of a backhand swinging motion and was not paying attention to where I was,” Goudeau said. “And I just caught the top part of the bench on the back of my hand. It kind of cracked my hand and got a little red, and I really didn’t think anything of it. It was a little sore. I continued to pitch, and I never would’ve guessed it was broken because the velocity stayed the same and all my offspeed (pitches) stayed the same. It just was a little sore.” ... "