Baseball pitches aren't living creatures; they don't have feathers. They do fly, though, and to an incurious or uninitiated observer, their flights and behaviors could blend together. 'Pitches,' one might declare them, just as Charles Darwin might've gazed upon 'birds' in the Galapagos Islands and moved along.
In 2011, Zack Wheeler watched a video of Mariano Rivera describing how he held his cutter and decided to start throwing the pitch in games at High-A San Jose, where he was a 21-year-old prospect in the Giants system.
Wheeler's approach might be particularly proactive, but his interest in The Next Pitch is widely shared. Pitchers across the league today have become fluent in the movement metrics that help define pitches, the detailed statistics that quickly gauge their performance and the language of pitch design that aids in their development.
Per research from Baseball Prospectus’ Pitch Info unit, the average MLB starter throws 4.23 different pitches at least 5% of the time. That average hasn’t changed much over the past decade, but the path to it has, as more pitchers are moving toward the extremes.
“I think a lot of it,” said Chris Langin, Driveline Baseball’s director of pitching, “comes down to just understanding the purpose of the pitch or why a pitcher would need it.”
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