Mick Abel

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.