Remember: he's thrown that many just this year. No one's even had nine over multiple years. Only three other pitchers, including Zack Greinke this year, have made it to eight in a season.
Even that doesn't even tell the full story, because Darvish is throwing variations of pitches we don't even have classifications for. As confirmed with the Cubs organization, and in some cases by Darvish himself, he's actually thrown 10 different pitches this year.
He's unlike anyone we've ever seen -- and, as you may have noticed, over his last 14 starts, he's struck out batters While he skipped his Sunday start, he's expected to start on Saturday as scheduled. It's worth remembering here that pitch classification is something of a moving target, especially since the label defers to what the pitcher wants it to be called.
As an example, Zack Britton throws a breaking ball at He calls it a slider. Meanwhile, Scherzer throws a breaking ball at He calls it a curveball. This is why different sites may have pitches named differently.
We've confirmed Darvish's types with the team, and when MLB. Here are the 10 different pitches Darvish is throwing this year, roughly ordered from most used to least. See, already this gets difficult.
Were you to look at Darvish's Baseball Savant page , which displays Statcast information, you'll see that he throws a cutter Except, as Bastian noted in August , there's now two cutters. Has better command of it than 4-seamer. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. We have somewhat arbitrarily split the two at 90 mph for simplicity's sake -- Bastian astutely suggested the " Darpitch " as a better name than "hard cutter" -- and first-year Cubs pitching coach Tommy Hottovy explained how it works.
And to certain lefties that we need a ball in a certain area. When Darvish throws the hard cutter, Not for the strike zone. Just as hard as I could. Yu explains it. As the Chicago Tribune notes , Darvish's fastball has tended to top out around 95 miles per hour since the former Texas Rangers ace joined the Cubs in According to Mark Gonzales, Chicago inked him to his big-money contract "because of his strikeout potential, but they hadn't witnessed his velocity registering this high until Monday.
By Cody Benjamin. Apr 16, at am ET 1 min read. The real number may be even higher, as Petriello indicated when mentioning additional variations of pitches. For instance, Cubs Insider pointed out back in March that Darvish actually has more than one relatively distinct version of his slider.
So that brings it to a least 11 types. And none of this takes into account the various pitches he can throw left-handed, which would bring the total closer to 15 or so. Evan Altman September 6, Check Also. The Padres believe he will. He got comfortable in his own skin and was going to do the thing he knew worked for him. There was a certain leeway there where the Cubs let him do that. The velocity of the fastball is 98, and can be up from that. When people see that, they want the pitcher to throw fastballs a lot.
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