Ben Clemens
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14 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Ben Clemens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Blue Jays Talk · JTP: Jays Start Slow in Cleveland, Angels Sale & WPBL Check-In · 2 Sep 2026
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Um that if you can tilt the pitch that way, it's not easy to do, but it gives you kind of platoon immunity.
Uh pitcher uh batteries from both sides of the plate see that pitch the same.
Uh you don't have the same kind of issues that you have with other uh breaking balls where it's like, oh, this shape is easy to see for an opposite-handed batter, I can't use it as much, you know, that kind of thing.
Um
That is not the case with these deep dropping curveballs.
They also tend to pair really well with backspinning fastballs.
Um also
I
I think that generally speaking, it's it was a fun exercise to like look for unique stuff.
Um I like I like unique pitches in baseball these days, especially because curveballs are falling out of prevalence.
It's good to see like what it looks like for people to succeed throwing like a really good archetypical one.
Um
Uh nothing really beyond that.
Just hey, like what is the best archetypical curveball and baseball these days look like?
So I couldn't say about his like, you know, hand positioning stuff.
Um that that's a question for like, I don't know, him, whoever he's working with to like work on pitches in the offseason.
But one of the disqualifying factors for throwing these is if you don't have a really over the top arm angle, you can't.
And he obviously fits that.
So he hits the kind of the first few boxes, which is he has the right arm, like arm slot, arm arm motion.
to make this throw and the rest of his arsenal would work well with it.
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