Robert Stock

I'm like, you know what?

I'm doing it all sidearm.

This is no fun.

So in the winter is when I actually began full-time sidearm.

And then I took that into...

this last season with the Red Sox, and the whole year, every single pitch was sidearm, and we experimented with all sorts of different pitches, pitch shapes, sides of the rubber, pitch sequences, just which pitches to use against which batters.

The whole year was an experiment, and it was changing the entire time, and it still is continuing to experiment and get better, but I'm excited for next year to put it all together.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, basically what they have nowadays is like your pitching stuff can get graded.

And what's nice is in the past, you used to have to say, hey, I'm going to try a new grip on a pitch.

It's going to take me a month of throwing it versus hitters to see if I think it's going to be any good or not, because you can't just rely on one game.

You could get unlucky, right?

Yeah.

But now with the computers and stuff, you can say, well, other people have thrown pitches just like this one and they historically do pretty well or maybe not.

So it can give you a better idea of how to be effective sooner.

And the best example of that are these guys that get to the major leagues

in one season and they're already really good well that's because they've been working on the things that will make them good based on computer grades and stuff since the moment they got signed they were probably working on it even in college these days right you saw um trey is savage in the in the world series bb a poster boy yeah i mean there's there's that i'm glad you mentioned that like it's a great take and there's another great conversation is that we know this that guys reestablish is sort of the the guy at

Yeah, they can be working on what makes a good major league pitch.

It's pretty well known.

There's still a couple of gray areas for guys that are ultra deceptive.