MLB is OBSESSED With Bad Fastballs

Описание: After some travels to the 2025 Winter Meetings and Wake Forest's annual Player Development Seminar, one thing stood out to me: MLB organizations are obsessed with cutting their fastballs. But it's not for the reasons you think.

In this video, we'll dive into the cut-fastball revolution, revisit seam-shifted wake, analyze why the ability to get to the side of the ball is the catalyst for the pitch mix revolution, and where we go from here.

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0:00 Cut Fastball Obsession
0:37 The Preferred Fastball is Changing
1:19 2025: Year of the Pitch Mix
2:18 Seam-Shifted Wake
3:23 The Spectrum of “Cut”
4:15 A Simpler Approach to This Topic
5:08 This Prospect Has 7 Pitches
5:56 Why “Cut” is Popular
6:50 Which MLB Teams Are Differentiating
8:17 Where Are We … Right Now
8:37 Big Mix’s Natural Evolution
9:26 The Yamamoto Example
10:15 Being Unpredictable is Hard
11:27 Here’s Where We’re Going
13:06 More to Come!