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Originally Posted by ChrisExtreme
cut fastball is the answer
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Agreed.
It tails away from the right handed hitters inducing many groundballs.
It cuts into a left handed hitter and even if you get a piece of it, you'll break your bat.
Lots of people have cutters, but then again every pitcher has a fastball, but it's not Roger Clemens' or Randy Johnson's fastball either.
However, being a "one pitch" pitcher is the reason he's a closer and not a starter. You're not going to get that same pitch by a big league hitter more than so many times before he figures out a way to hit it.
I think that's a big part of the reason Boston was able to rough him up in last years LCS.....they faced him so many times during the regular season because of the unbalanced schedule that alot of their hitters had him figured out.
