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Meet Zac Houston: The 'funky' throwing Detroit Tigers pitcher vying for a bullpen spot

RHP Casey Mize (No. 74, far right), the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 MLB draft, on the mound at Tigers spring training Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press

LAKELAND, Fla. — Zac Houston can’t really describe his pitching mechanics.

When he tries, he just keeps coming back to “weird” and “funky” and “it’s just a lot.”

Houston, a big, right-handed reliever known for piling up strikeouts, says the delivery has always been his modus operandi.

“Big and weird,” he said. “I don’t know where it came from. It’s not like I was throwing one day and was like, ‘Let’s just get stupid.