RESEARCH: Can't hit the curveball; won't hit the curveball
Feb 12 2015
One of the Fanalytic Fundamentals is, “Once you display a skill, you own it.” We’ve learned it, we’ve lived it, and we’ve loved it. Now, the question must be asked: “Once you lack a skill, do you disown it?”
Baseball is all about making adjustments. At each level, players make adjustments to the new level of talents they face, but nothing prepares them for what they face when they get to the major leagues. Crash Davis said it best in Bull Durham: “They throw ungodly breaking stuff in the show. Exploding sliders…” While Davis was talking to Nuke LaLoosh in the movie, he may as well have been talking to Mike Zunino of the Seattle Mariners.
The former third overall pick is coming off a season in which, despite hitting 22 home runs and...
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