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So, um, does JJ Putz have a weapon?
But JJ's true brilliance was that forkball. He didn't just have heat.
Pryor's got a hammer slider that used to fall out of the zone, but he's fine-tuned it to make that thing stay for a called strike recently. It kinda works like an 85 mph splitfinger now with late bite. I'll see if I can video him next time so you can see it.
So: 94-99 mph heat, 85ish slider/split.
He's basically throwing like Papelbon at this point. And he has that same bull-in-a-china-shop look on the mound, which helps.
~G