Lorenzen’s new curve has the Reds pitcher feeling confident

While Michael Lorenzen hasn’t taken the mound recently as he’s working his way back from a small injury, he’s pretty excited about how things have gone this spring except for the injury. In his most recent bullpen session an adjustment from Derek Johnson led to a breakthrough with his curveball.

“I was pretty stoked with how I was throwing the ball,” said Lorenzen. “I made an adjustment with my curveball. I almost thought about just stop throwing my curveball. During my pen I threw two curveballs with a little adjustment DJ (pitching coach Derek Johnson) told me about and it was like ‘oh wow, that’s a completely different pitch’ and so I took it out in the game and it was awesome every time…