As Tyler Kepner notes in his new book “K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches” (due out next week), a pitcher’s gears are always turning. Baseball may seem to have a number of lulls in action, but this doesn’t pertain to the man on the mound. The pitcher constantly evaluates how his pitches feel on that particular night, how the hitter looked against a certain pitch, who is on deck, the list goes on.
Kepner. a national baseball writer and former Yankees beat writer for the New York Times, uses his book to dissect those thought processes in finite detail.