Mick Abel
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And I'm like, yeah, I mean, I threw it in 2023, 2022 or 2023, and I scrapped it because it was blending with my curveball.
And then last year with the Phillies, I'd started working on it again.
And I was about to deploy the pitch like a week before I got traded or a week after I got traded.
I ended up doing it with the twins, and, you know, it's taken some work because it's a funky grip, a funky feel, but, yeah, sweeper's been, sweeper was, like, one of the first things that we did.
Sure, I mean, I remember, I know, I've seen one of Joe throwing around.
It was like the Sun on Pitching Ninja.
Oh, yeah.
No, dude, we...
There was everything else.
I have no idea how that pitch breaks like that, but I saw it, and I'm like, all right, there's some unnatural forces working against this baseball.
Like, how big is the scuff on that ball?
It's awesome.
You're over here?
Yeah, I mean, I think... I know this just seems like forever ago.
Yeah, I know.
It's like, yeah, I mean, if I had an inkling I'd go in the first round and I had no idea where.
I mean, there were some teams up top that were talking to my agent and talking to me about it.
And then there were, you know, a handful of other teams that we're talking about later.
It was kind of funny.
I had never really expected to go to the Phillies.