A quick check with the numbers over at Brooks, and it turns out I didn’t need glasses (more on that later). Bard’s fastball certainly had something taken off-he wasn’t throwing 99 miles per hour anymore, which was to be expected. Reports coming out of spring training said he’d developed a second, tamer version of his notorious video-game slider. Yet I still can’t give it up.Īs a Red Sox fan, I began tinkering with the feature while wondering how dialed-back Daniel Bard’s stuff has become since his conversion to starter.
Brooks Baseball has been both a godsend to my baseball watching experience and a bar-of-soap-in-a-gym-sock to my family life-I think my wife filed divorce papers last week while I was surfing its pages. With that said, when I discovered the whiff/swing tool so generously provided by the guys over at, an obsession was born. But that doesn’t mean those pitches aren’t fun to watch.Ī swing-and-miss can be one of the most spectacularly violent moments in all of sports, and often happens dozens of times within a single game.
#Pinata swing and miss how to
The presence of a lights-out, swing-and-miss pitch in a pitcher’s repertoire doesn’t guarantee he’ll use it properly, or even that the pitcher will ever figure out how to pitch in the major leagues.
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