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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Pitcher Fatigue
When I was watching the Pedro/Little game, I thought he should have been pulled the inning before. It looked like his fastball still had the speed, but it was just flat. He then proceeded to strike out Soriano to end the inning. We all know what happened afterwards. Josh Kalk shows us that it’s possible that while the fastball speed goes down a tiny bit as the game goes on, it’s his movement that starts to lose it.
I would expect therefore, that we should see something very similar with breaking pitches, that either those pitches don’t break as much, or the pitcher throws it less often because it is too taxing on his arm to throw breaking pitches.
Great stuff…