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gehrig38 · 12-16-2012, 02:42 AM

Understand this, there is a difference in Roy Halladay being able to throw his curve for strikes, and being able to move it side to side. He doesn't intentionally do the latter, almost no one in existence does, or did. You speed it up, slow it down, put it at the top of the zone, bounced it below, but's if you think about this, a true curve is 12-6, you cannot physically make it go side to side.I used to think of the strike zone like a slot machine looking top down, three slots, the ONLY pitches I ever wanted in the middle slot were my curve and split, I never, in my life, attempted to throw a fastball down the middle.
Sliders, cutters, yes you can control them side to side, hell Maddux showed me, not intentionally, how insane a backdoor slider to a LHH was and I could throw it with my eyes closed to about an 8 inch wide swathe of plate when I had it, and I did alot early on. Late in my career I started to learn (from Varitek) the front door slider to righties, that Mariano started using so much.

12-16-2012, 02:42 AM	#14
gehrig38 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Medfield, Mass Posts: 5,992	Difference Understand this, there is a difference in Roy Halladay being able to throw his curve for strikes, and being able to move it side to side. He doesn't intentionally do the latter, almost no one in existence does, or did. You speed it up, slow it down, put it at the top of the zone, bounced it below, but's if you think about this, a true curve is 12-6, you cannot physically make it go side to side.I used to think of the strike zone like a slot machine looking top down, three slots, the ONLY pitches I ever wanted in the middle slot were my curve and split, I never, in my life, attempted to throw a fastball down the middle. Sliders, cutters, yes you can control them side to side, hell Maddux showed me, not intentionally, how insane a backdoor slider to a LHH was and I could throw it with my eyes closed to about an 8 inch wide swathe of plate when I had it, and I did alot early on. Late in my career I started to learn (from Varitek) the front door slider to righties, that Mariano started using so much.