Trevor Bauer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so you're free swinging this pitch.
Well, I mean, I borrowed it from... So I had a teammate at the time, Corey Kluber, who threw one.
And then Marcus Stroman was throwing one, and Mike Clevenger, who was also a teammate at the time, threw one.
So I just took slow-motion video of him.
I'm like, okay, how do you throw this pitch?
And I just watched him do it.
And I was like, okay, I can do that.
And then tried it, sucked at it.
And then spent three months in the offseason figuring it out.
And then came back the next year and was an all-star and had a great year.
Wow.
So I'm a nerd.
I'm a nerd first and an athlete second.
I was a mechanical engineer in college before I dropped out to play.
So I just look at things like an engineer does.
Okay, well, the ball has to move that way because of something.
Well, it's spinning a certain way.
It's in the air.
I look at fluid dynamics.
Holy crap.