get distracted watching Hiroki Kuroda pitch. It's not that he's really good, or that I'm shocked by his mastery of the strike zone—it's that the vague consensus on the internet is that he throws the shuuto, the other ill-defined, mystery-shrouded Japanese breaking pitch that follows, at beat-writer-distance, every pitching import from the moment they step foot in the states. The shuuto, famously misidentified as a gyroball a few years back, is supposed to be anything from a "reverse slider" to a two-seam fastball to a slider with less lateral movement.
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