Bleed Cubbie Blue · Jan 22, 2019
The FlatGround revolution and what it means to baseball
Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty ImagesA part of assessing the baseball landscape includes knowing what you don’t know. For years and decades, teams would aggressively use recent signings in pitching scenarios. High school and college players, fresh off of a full season, would get used for fifty and more innings before their season ended. While this worked well for some, it was career disaster for others. After all the decades, pitching is still a combination of “that doesn’t work” and “that might work sometimes”. This is a look at a new pitching development.