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Effectively Wild Episode 1986: Season Preview Series: Braves and Rockies

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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How to Throw a Change Up Without Pronating

There's a new way to throw change ups using seam shifted wake. The concept that explains how the seam orientation of a baseball can affect how symmetrical its wake is. A traditional change up turns over the hand through the inside of the ball for pictures who don't already pronate on another pitch. New technology and data available has seen old standbys like the four seam fastball thrown in different locations more often high instead of low.

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