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An animated diagram of a cutter. In baseball, a cut fastball or cutter is a type of fastball that breaks toward the pitcher's glove-hand side, as it reaches home plate. [1] This pitch is somewhere between a slider and a four-seam fastball, as it is usually thrown faster than a slider but with more movement than a typical fastball. [1]
The cutter or cut fastball, is a pitch that blurs the lines between a four-seam fastball and a slider. The pitcher typically shifts their grip on a four-seam fastball to the side of the ball, and slightly supinates their wrist to convert some backspin into gyroscopic spin. This alters the movement of the fastball in several ways.
Pimentel has 4 pitches: a four-seam fastball, a 12-6 curveball, a changeup and a two-seam cut fastball. His four-seamer ranges from 92-95, his cutter is 89-92, his curve around the low 70s, and his changeup around 78-82. He is an aggressive pitcher. [8]
A breaking pitch, usually a slider, curveball, or cut fastball that, due to its lateral motion, passes through a small part of the strike zone on the outside edge of the plate after seeming as if it would miss the plate entirely. It may not cross the front of the plate but only the back and thus have come in through the "back door".
Cutter or cut fastball, a type of pitch in baseball; Cutter (card player), the player who cuts the pack in a card game; Leg cutter, a type of delivery in cricket; Off cutter, a type of delivery in cricket; Cutter, a participant in the equestrian sport of cutting, where the horse and rider demonstrate their ability to handle cattle
Haren had also added and relied heavily upon an 85–87-mile-per-hour (137–140 km/h) cut fastball, which he added in 2008 and had credited with rejuvenating his career. [37] The cut fastball made up more than half of his pitch selection to right-handed hitters, with his fastballs and occasional split-finger fastball filling up most of the rest.
The cut fastball (cutter) is similar to the two-seam fastball in velocity, but breaks to the opposite side of a pitcher's throwing arm (i.e., a right-handed pitcher will have it break right-to-left). Hard breaking balls: The most prominent of the hard breaking balls is the slider. A slider is a pitch that breaks sharply in the direction of the ...
Feldman is a three-quarters pitcher with a sinker, a low-to-mid-90s fastball, a hard dropping slider, a curve, a changeup, and a 90 mph cut fastball. [102] [125] He changed the angle of his arm from sidearm to three-quarters in September 2007. [126] In August 2009 a scout described him as having three "above-average pitches", and a "filthy ...