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... the fact that the slider/cutter is thrown to 2 very simple locations, to --- > break off the plate. RH pitchers seem able to throw that pitch across their bodies, to the 1B side of the plate, and consistently execute it.
"If you miss, miss inside (to a LHB)" is an approach that just about any RHP in the high minors can execute reliably. So it's kind of like he (and Hochevar) have just 2.5 pitches to worry about.
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Also, if he is 99 with the fastball, 1-2 IP, he does not have to worry much about location.
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All that leaves, is the "separation" of his circle change -- to throw it convincingly, to snap it off, as he did in Miami and last night.
The ideal is one thing; what an athlete can actually DO is another :- )