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Cubs rookie reliever Luke Little is built like a truck and sits in the mid-to-high 90s from the left side.
The key to his career might be a big, slow, horizontally sweeping slider.
“Obviously I come from way out to the left,” Little said, miming out his low three-quarters left-handed arm slot. “So I am able to backdoor sliders a lot more to righties and I’m able to get more deception to lefties.