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  2. Cut fastball - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Fastball - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Identifying baseball pitch types in 2023: A modern ... - AOL

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    In 2011, Zack Wheeler watched a video of Mariano Rivera describing how he held his cutter and decided to start throwing the pitch in games at High-A San Jose, where he was a 21-year-old prospect ...

  5. Pitch (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    In baseball, the pitch is the act of throwing the baseball toward home plate to start a play. The term comes from the Knickerbocker Rules. Originally, the ball had to be thrown underhand, much like "pitching in horseshoes". Overhand pitching was not allowed in baseball until 1884. The biomechanics of pitching have been studied extensively.

  6. Are sliders destined to overtake fastballs as baseball's ...

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    The late-diving pitch, which verges on cutter status, first nudged past Kershaw’s fastball in usage in 2018 and has overtaken it entirely since 2021. This season, the future Hall of Famer has ...

  7. He's throwing a what? The 'sweeper' is MLB's latest pitching ...

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    Pitch Info has, this season, added sweeper as a distinct pitch category in addition to slider, curveball, cutter and so on. The difference, to Pavlidis? “Movement,” he told Yahoo Sports via ...