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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, May 07, 2008N.Y. Sun: Marchman: Unlike Most at 28, Wang Is Evolving as a PitcherChill out...Wang’s “nasty sinking fastball” is the pitch to see and be seen!
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In fact, given the physical changes that tend to occur as a pitcher nears 30 (loss of elasticity, loss of velocity, etc.), my guess is that most pitchers "evolve" in their late 20's. Those who do it successfully continue to pitch past 30; those who can't adapt to the natural loss of physical talent find themselves out of the game.
This is simply wrong -- Marchman needs to bone up on the PITCHf/x literature. Wang's sinker tails in towards a RHB, for that matter like just about any other right-handed fastball, sinking or otherwise. The difference in his K rate for righties and lefties is a bit more of a mystery than Marchman thinks.
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Do players with large platoon splits show a large split in the minors?
After they signed Cano in the offseason, they told Wang they wanted to wait until after this season and then they would discuss a long term contract.
Despite the fact that these two are not similar players at all, and despite my belief that Cano will be just fine, the Robinson struggles just after signing the deal may enter into Yankee thinking at some point.
And yes, pitchers evolve at all sorts of ages. I recall MGL saying that pitcher development was related to ML time, not age. (Not sure about pitcher decline) And of course many pitchers have had to change their games pretty radically when they got old.
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