Many of those who are interested in baseball pitching might have noticed that Steele's fourseamer is odd, like its movement is not like a fourseam fastball... which is a very accurate observation as apparenly Steele throws fourseam fastball with cutter grip. However, the arm actions are like how fourseam fastball is thrown and Statcast still records this pitch type as fourseam fastball. Steele's fourseamers do move like cutter. According to Statcast, Steele's fourseamer has much bigger horizontal break action than comparable average pitches. However, it drops vertically much less than average, which is a more ideal characteristic for fourseam fastball than cutter, thus making this pitch a hybrid between cutter and fourseamer.
Kinda crazy how he was this good this season with just two pitches. He wasn’t even throwing gas or anything, the movement on his pitches and his command alone enabled him to achieve that.
Many of those who are interested in baseball pitching might have noticed that Steele's fourseamer is odd, like its movement is not like a fourseam fastball... which is a very accurate observation as apparenly Steele throws fourseam fastball with cutter grip. However, the arm actions are like how fourseam fastball is thrown and Statcast still records this pitch type as fourseam fastball.
Steele's fourseamers do move like cutter. According to Statcast, Steele's fourseamer has much bigger horizontal break action than comparable average pitches. However, it drops vertically much less than average, which is a more ideal characteristic for fourseam fastball than cutter, thus making this pitch a hybrid between cutter and fourseamer.
Kinda crazy how he was this good this season with just two pitches. He wasn’t even throwing gas or anything, the movement on his pitches and his command alone enabled him to achieve that.