Article from the 538 nerds about the decline of the fastball

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Pretty good read

Why Some MLB Pitchers Are Abandoning The Fastball

It was less a baseball game, by the sixth and seventh and eighth innings, than a conference-room presentation, with the pitches as bullet points and the batters…

fivethirtyeight.com

 

[navamind]

Pretty good read

Why Some MLB Pitchers Are Abandoning The Fastball

It was less a baseball game, by the sixth and seventh and eighth innings, than a conference-room presentation, with the pitches as bullet points and the batters…

fivethirtyeight.com

It seemed like offspeed pitches were taking over around 2016/17 with the Houston/Cleveland/Dodgers/Red Sox pitching staffs.