Friday, March 11, 2005

Command, velocity, tempo

Paul Meyer has the news on Kip. Hopefully there's no undue soreness or pain today and/or tomorrow.

I still wonder if he's throwing all his pitches. Spin says all Kip's stuff was plus but what exactly is all his stuff right now? Fastball - slider - change? We hear detailed information about a pitcher's arsenal, for example, when he's using some "new pitch" in an attempt to revive a sagging career. Sometimes we learn that so-and-so's fastball is 86-88 when it used to be 91-92 five years ago.

But fastballs and velocity are not the whole of the story. I'd like to know more about how our different starters are progressing this spring with each pitch in their repetoire. Who is throwing the best curveball? Who is throwing with sick command? I would appreciate more detail like that.

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