My initial reaction when watching Duane Underwood Jr. work Wednesday night against the Twins was that the velocity readings were haywire. He threw a pitch that I thought was a changeup because of its sharp break, but the score bug said it was 96 mph. Then he threw what appeared to be the same dropping fastball again, but this time it registered as a 90 mph changeup.
Duane Underwood Jr. fastball (96 mph) and changeup (90 mph) pic.twitter.com/8bp17OW24R
— Brendan Miller (@CubsRelated) July 23, 2020
This doesn’t make sense, I thought.