When I first watched the first video I thought his first two pitches were just wildly wicked forkers, but then on the 4th or 5th pitch you see his normal forker, which just completely falls off the table, without much movement armside.
He has two wicked out pitches there. They set up his located FB, because batters eventually try to lay off the low/on the black stuff, assuming it will move out of the zone.
I like that he throws his Shuuto to lefties, too.
Looking at the chart above, I wonder how many of those "splitters" that are in the top/left quadrant are really Shuuto's. There isn't much difference in speed or movement between those and the labeled Shuutos.
To me it looks like his forker just goes down, mostly, and arrives at more of a change-up pace.
Either way, he can pitch. I like the Cone comparison.
Tiant, Doc. Didn't Tiant pitch like that? Palm ball, slider, palmball, slider, palmball, fastball.
And now my attitude is, who is he heck is Millwood?
Hope we get this guy.
moe
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