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Re: Cubs in '20
« Reply #2685 on: August 05, 2020, 02:14:18 pm »
He has to give hitters a reason to swing at a curve.

Right now, there isn’t one.

Hitters have less than 1/2 of a second to determine what a pitch is, if it is going to be a strike and if the should swing.  If Kimbrel is tunneling his pitches hitters will have a lot harder time determining all of that and somebody would chase at a bad curve ball in the dirt at least once.  If the curve is coming at a different angle they can just ignore it and wait for a fastball.
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