
Effectively Wild Episode 1999: Meet a Maggi Leaguer
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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How Jose Suarez's Pitch Tipping Has Changed Over the Years
In the first to third innings against the A's while Suarez was doing this, he gave up eight hits and a walk and five home runs. And then he went back out for the fourth and fifth, having changed his setup. After the third, he changed his glove placement and the results differed. So again, correlation, not causation. I don't know for sure that he was like, eminently hitable and home-rable against while he was pitching and then almost unhittable when he was not tipping. We're probably all doing that constantly and probably much more often than major league pitchers who have been conditioned not to do it. But it's funny that they do it even
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