Thursday, March 19, 2009

Joel Pineiro Embraces The Power Of The Sinker; Jason Motte Just Embraces Power

For those pitchers not sporting an overpowering fastball, one of the fundamental tenets of Pitching According to Dave Duncan is having a pitch that can be thrown for a strike low in the zone and has movement on it. Often that pitch is a two-seam fastball, or a “sinker”. Almost all of the St. Louis Cardinals’ starters have one and flaunt it.

Cardinal Beat

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