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Wash always got strangely un-dangerous contact off pitches that looked like they should be upper-deck jobs... Inside Pitch called it "that little hop on his fastball" ... he could pump 87 fastballs in there pitch after pitch, and get skied fly balls one after the other...
Laffey does visually appear to me to have some of this; his motion is funky, the release is funky (and deceptive) and the flight of the ball looks knuckleballish...
*Possible* that his ball just moves in enough of an unorthodox way to help him out with the squareness of the contact...
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Great catch on the XBH/BABIP ratio G. If Laffey ever sees time in the bullpen, maybe you can track that for us.