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Jason Vargas Has An Awesome Changeup

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It's funny how we talk about the change as Felix's best pitch, and sort of revere its general awesomeness... but by Fangraphs' pitch values charts, 2012's Best Changeup In Baseball award actually goes to the Mariners' very own Jason Vargas. Yes, the pitch value statistics are taken in a vacuum and have no predictive value, and no, Vargas' changeup is likely not actually better than Felix's, and no, the numbers aren't defense-independent. But I thought it was cool.