If anybody was going to find that sentence, it had to be you. Howling.
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Fixed it for ya. Too much emphasis on velo, not enough on pitch control and playing the zone. I’ll take Greg Maddox over any of the modern pitchers
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Greg Maddox is my favorite pitcher of all time. Watching the clips from the MLB Network documentary has only solidified that. I watched him throw a complete game shutout in 1 hr and 55 min throwing under 100 pitches. Brilliant player.
The problem is you cannot expect pitchers to all of a sudden develop a Maddux like approach when the guys in the majors today have been selected for a completely different set of traits. If talent is identified by evaluation of velocity and spin rate rather than theur ability to get batters out, they’re not going to be able turn to a different way of getting outs once their stats drop.
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Especially difficult for a modern brute force velo pitcher to throw more intelligent when he has this wretched pitch-clock on his back. But that’s none of my business.
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