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Originally Posted by 95Marinerschangedmylife
Being from Seattle, I am use to the Mr. Snappy style of slider. Stieb has some really late break to it. It doesnt seem fair for some of those pitches especially first video :51 into it. Nasty. Kind of Guidry style.
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Louisiana Lightning had a great one. From what I remember (dim memories to be sure) it was mostly a north/south slider, whereas Stieb could break out the one with severe tilt horizontally and vertically on the same pitch, or he could break out the north/south one with just as severe a tilt. Every pitch of his had movement on it.
Steve Carlton's another one, and Randy Johnson, which you got to see up close and personal. I imagine for a LHB, it was game over on the slider given the 3/4 arm slot that Johnson threw from (ask John Kruk and Larry Walker
). Was his more of the traditional side to side slider with a little bit of vertical movement or am I misremembering?
Here's an article written by Rob Neyer in 2004 ranking the best sliders of all-time. Stieb's is #7, one behind Guidry. I probably should change my declaration from "...the best slider I ever, ever saw" to "...the best slider I ever, ever saw up close and personal" because I saw a lot of the guys on that top 10 list.
