According to Street, Wash adds split

by HARRYP09 on May 11, 2008 3:43 PM PDT

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080511&content_id=2681029&vkey=news_sea&fext=.jsp&c_id=sea

Assuming he can actually use it, this is probably a good thing, right? Think JJ is teaching him the split, or would it be Stottlemeyer?

75 word Wikipedia fun fact:

A split-finger fastball or splitter is a pitch in baseball and a variant of the straight fastball. It is named after the technique of putting the index and middle finger on different sides of the ball, or "splitting" them. When thrown hard, it appears to be a fastball to the batter, but suddenly "drops off the table" towards home plate—that is, it suddenly moves down, towards the batter's knees. It is thrown today by many pitchers, including Roger Clemens, John Smoltz, Curt Schilling, Dan Haren, and Rich Harden, a reflection of its popularity amongst power pitchers.

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I bet it looks like all his other suck pitches

by Gomez on May 11, 2008 3:56 PM PDT reply actions

I bet ~~it looks like all~~ his ~~oth~~er suck ~~pitche~~s

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on May 11, 2008 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions

According to Street, Wash adds suck pitch

by Gomez on May 12, 2008 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions

How many suck pitches does one guy need?

by Jed MC on May 12, 2008 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions

Apparently at least one more.

Or a few less, depending on how you look at it.

Is it just me, or is this AJ trade looking worse every day?

by The Alaskan on May 12, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions

When you throw a pitch 85 mph

it doesn’t really matter what kind of fastball it is.

Looking at fangraphs his cutter % has been increasing the past few years and is at 15% right now. I’m guessing this is a splitter. Its been rising the past couple years so I don’t know if the splitter is new to this year.

By the way, Washburn is on his way to becoming an official junkball pitcher.

by Edgar for Pres on May 11, 2008 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions

If only he could learn from Moyer

http://seattlesportsmaniac.blogspot.com

by LantermanC on May 11, 2008 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions

He actually has quality offspeed pitches

by Edgar for Pres on May 11, 2008 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions

I still maintain that Jrod is a good pitcher

with good stuff

http://seattlesportsmaniac.blogspot.com

by LantermanC on May 11, 2008 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Washburn is basically the overpaid version of Jamie

with less location. They are both LH finesse flyball pitchers who regularly post ERAs that beat their peripheral stats.

by eponymous_coward on May 12, 2008 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions

I would take Moyer over Washburn.

by Slica on May 12, 2008 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions

His fastball is so garbage, sitting 86-89 with no movement it is like batting practice.

Hard to set up breaking balls with that kind of slop. He has been cutting down on the walks, which is something he needs to do if he is going to have any kind of success.

by ASUBoyd on May 11, 2008 5:41 PM PDT reply actions