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San Jose Mercury News · Mar 18, 2018

What Giants’ pitchers are testing and trying out this spring

San Francisco Giants pitcher Jeff Samardzija (29) delivers a pitch in the first inning of their baseball game against the Oakland Athletics at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–There’s seemingly a million different ways to throw a baseball, but most Major League pitchers stick to four or five.

Jeff Samardzija uses seven or eight in each game.

The Giants’ right-hander sinks and cuts his fastball, changes speeds with two different changeups and spins off a handful of breaking pitches.

Ask anyone at spring training what they’re up to and they’ll tell you they’re working on something. Anything.

Full story at San Jose Mercury News

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