Who is the Pitching Ninja?
For baseball fans on social media, the Pitching Ninja is both an educator and an influencer, posting layered gifs and slo-motion frames breaking down some of the nastiest pitches baseball has to offer each day. For pitchers, the Pitching Ninja — real name, Rob Friedman, starter of the FlatGround app that fostered A’s pitching project Nathan Patterson — is somewhat of an aspirational symbol. Inter generationally, a pitcher’s pitch featured in a Pitching Ninja clip is considered an honor.
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“I follow him pretty heavily, I look for his Tweets,” Oakland A’s left-handed pitcher Jesús Luzardo said.