Caleb Joseph

Yeah, I love the changeup.

I saw the changeup in spring training.

I thought this pitch is really, really good because it's a push-pull type of pitch that works in a different spot in the zone versus the other breaking ball.

So the breaking balls are moving more glove side down and into lefties and away from righties.

Now you start having that changeup.

You force a lefty to not stay in a on-the-backside position

moving close to him type of motion.

He can throw a fastball where you can just let that thing get deep and hang on the backside.

If he throws that breaking ball to a left-handed hitter, they can hang back and try and scoop it.

When you have a changeup that's not only pushing and pulling you but moving away from you, you have to get off that backside.

The minute you force a player to get off the backside,

If you rush 99 up and in, it looks like 105.

That's why I keep talking about push-pull type of pitches because in an era where so many people are throwing so fast, they're teaching hang on the backside, get in tight, and launch, right?

They're teaching that.

Them old school guys, like 1980, 85, they were spread out.

They were off the plate, and they were like dive jumping at it.

They were kind of colliding with the ball.

It's almost the opposite in this day and age.

Where the east-west stuff, it gives you a chance when you hang back on that backside, it gives you a chance on east-west to let it travel.

That's why I like these slower breaking balls than split fingers because it forces you to get more moving towards the pitcher.