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Effectively Wild Episode 1985: Season Preview Series: Padres and Reds

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Importance of Fastball Shape in Baseball

Hunter green is sort of an interesting guy for us to look at as we're trying to understand the importance of fastball shape in addition to velocity. I don't know how to transition to hunter green from that he does not have hot dog fingers trim sure he's happy about that seems like it would make pitching hard. He had a very strange rookie year it it ended up being kind of okay it started really rough and things seem to improve as the season went on. It's one of those things where it's tough to replicate big league hitters right especially when you have such an outlier where everything you throw is a hunk Like you know he averaged something like you've got through your whole life

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