I spent most of the day noodling on some thoughts about baseball, legacy, and the nature of cynicism. The recap was going to be great. But some days the game just forces your hand. How can this recap not just be about Bryce Miller’s splitter?
The splitter is the It Pitch in baseball right now. Thanks in no small part to the way it took George Kirby and Logan Gilbert’s arsenals to the next level, it seems like every pitcher on earth was trying to add one this offseason. Take a guy like Bryce Miller, who’s got an electric fastball, but it plays down because he has only one secondary to play it against, a slider that doesn’t break quite hard enough to backfoot lefties, leading to one of the biggest platoon splits in the game.