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Tom House

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

2-2.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

But the genius of Greg Maddux, he threw the velocity where he had the most movement. He could still, even in his later years, he could have thrown 95, 96, but it flattened out. So there's three ways to get a hitter out. You get them out with speed, change of speed, and movement. And he was a genius at all those. And a fastball in at 90 is faster than a fastball away at 90. Perceive velocity.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

But the genius of Greg Maddux, he threw the velocity where he had the most movement. He could still, even in his later years, he could have thrown 95, 96, but it flattened out. So there's three ways to get a hitter out. You get them out with speed, change of speed, and movement. And he was a genius at all those. And a fastball in at 90 is faster than a fastball away at 90. Perceive velocity.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

But the genius of Greg Maddux, he threw the velocity where he had the most movement. He could still, even in his later years, he could have thrown 95, 96, but it flattened out. So there's three ways to get a hitter out. You get them out with speed, change of speed, and movement. And he was a genius at all those. And a fastball in at 90 is faster than a fastball away at 90. Perceive velocity.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

One foot of distance, three miles an hour. So what he was was a guy that had a release point closer to home plate than any other six-foot pitcher. He could make the ball move and he could change speeds.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

One foot of distance, three miles an hour. So what he was was a guy that had a release point closer to home plate than any other six-foot pitcher. He could make the ball move and he could change speeds.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

One foot of distance, three miles an hour. So what he was was a guy that had a release point closer to home plate than any other six-foot pitcher. He could make the ball move and he could change speeds.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

Exactly. He released the baseball 48 feet, six inches from home plate. That's the cut of the grass in front of the mound. And he was effectively wild.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

Exactly. He released the baseball 48 feet, six inches from home plate. That's the cut of the grass in front of the mound. And he was effectively wild.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

Exactly. He released the baseball 48 feet, six inches from home plate. That's the cut of the grass in front of the mound. And he was effectively wild.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

And Randy doesn't mind me saying this. They knew every pitch that Randy was throwing in his big league career. They knew what was coming. They knew what was coming. But you couldn't dig in on him because he would do two slatters on the half shell and throw one behind your head without even trying. So he was what we call effectively wild.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

And Randy doesn't mind me saying this. They knew every pitch that Randy was throwing in his big league career. They knew what was coming. They knew what was coming. But you couldn't dig in on him because he would do two slatters on the half shell and throw one behind your head without even trying. So he was what we call effectively wild.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

And Randy doesn't mind me saying this. They knew every pitch that Randy was throwing in his big league career. They knew what was coming. They knew what was coming. But you couldn't dig in on him because he would do two slatters on the half shell and throw one behind your head without even trying. So he was what we call effectively wild.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

The fear factor hitting off of Randy was, I'm just going to take my chances. I don't want to know what's coming.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

The fear factor hitting off of Randy was, I'm just going to take my chances. I don't want to know what's coming.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

The fear factor hitting off of Randy was, I'm just going to take my chances. I don't want to know what's coming.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

Exactly.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

Exactly.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

Exactly.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice

What goes around comes around.