Bryce Harper's teammates and rivals make his MVP case
Subsequent thing you know he gets a pitch that's middle in and hits a double, left on left against a guy throwing 94-mile-an-hour sinkers. That's following hitting a back-door cutter off Shelby Miller for a residence run and another back-door cutter off Shelby for a …
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Loss not Jays' only concern with Edwin Encarnacion ailing, Troy Tulowitzki …
He seemed to struggle against hard fastballs and sinkers from Kansas City starter Edinson Volquez, whose typical velocity was larger than it has been in a couple of seasons. Asked regardless of whether there are specific places of the strike zone that are affecting …
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Kings of Command: Pitchers poised to break out
A complete season relying upon the sinker-very first mentality he displayed during his final eight begins of 2015 — be conscious that much more than 50 percent of his initial pitches of a count were in the bottom third of the zone — which was largely responsible for his …
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Do the Angels have a prayer against the Astros?
… as Weaver is the slowest non-knuckleballing appropriate-hander in the majors, averaging under 85 mph on his fastball and 77.4 mph on his mix of slow heat, changeups and breaking stuff, whilst Keuchel also spends his time beneath 90 mph with his mix of …
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