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Saturday, September 12, 2009

The extinction of Zito’s hard curve: a brief follow-up


On September 11, I published this article on Barry Zito, where I stated that he dropped a hard curve, while adding a slider to his arsenal.

Many readers commented that what I noticed might just be a change in the MLBAM classification algorithm, rather than in Zito's repertoire.

I'm not surprised, since I had the same concern myself.
What follows won't end the matter and maybe I'll get on this again in a few weeks.

Here are the speed/movement charts of Zito's 2008 hard curve and his (alleged?) 2009 slider.

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Posted by Max Marchi at 9:52am (0) Comments