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ESPN
Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:22 -0700
Edward Mujica is the only pitcher in baseball to utilize the split-fingered fastball on more than half his pitches (61 percent). He has ended 12 of his 13 save opportunities with outs made on the pitch and has yet to blow a save for the Cardinals since ...
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Bleacher Report
Mon, 20 May 2013 00:43:17 -0700
Last season when Tazawa established himself as a quality big league reliever, he was throwing his best pitch, a split-fingered fastball, more than 30 percent of the time. This year, he's only throwing the pitch half as often and is relying too heavily ...
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Beyond the Box Score
Fri, 17 May 2013 08:26:38 -0700
He also is leaning more on a split fingered fastball with more vertical movement than in years past. You can see his pitch mix here: 2765142013040120130515aaaaamovement. The new and improved arsenal, plus the uptick in strikeouts make me cautiously ...
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Detroit Free Press
Sun, 12 May 2013 22:01:37 -0700
All of them were fastballs, not one split-fingered fastball. And through all the assorted ugliness, there yet remained the chance to record the save until Michael Brantley knocked one of those fastballs into leftfield for the game-tying run. Yup ...
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The Providence Journal (subscription)
Sat, 11 May 2013 18:18:51 -0700
Before Saturday, Buchholz hadn't bothered even once to throw his split-fingered fastball, a pitch he learned to throw last season when his changeup wasn't working. But Buchholz broke out his splitter on an 0-2 pitch to Melky Cabrera in the first inning ...
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Eagle-Tribune
Mon, 06 May 2013 09:12:47 -0700
Uehara, on the other hand, doesn't have a blazing fastball (89.1 mph on average) but his deceptive delivery and movement make his fastball, split-fingered fastball and occasional cutter extremely effective. Ross said about Tazawa: “He has such a good ...
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Boston Globe
Thu, 02 May 2013 01:59:02 -0700
And then pitching coach Juan Nieves lays this bombshell on us — Buchholz has a sixth pitch – a split-fingered fastball he hasn't used yet. When asked how effective the split-fingered pitch is, Nieved just shook his head and said, “Unbelievable.” ...
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MinnPost.com
Wed, 01 May 2013 12:39:27 -0700
Pitch classifications are always tricky, and in Correia's case, what PitchFX is calling a "changeup" is actually what he calls a split-fingered fastball. And he's throwing that pitch a whole lot more often this season while significantly reducing his ...
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