Trevor Bauer

So if one ball comes out like this and one ball comes out like that, they can read that super early.

Now that's in that 0.24 seconds that they might have, but it's really easy to read that.

So if you can get all your pitches to share the same trajectory out of your hand for the first 10 or 15 feet of flight, you basically wipe out that trajectory.

uh ability for the hitter to know what's coming and then at that point they're pretty much screwed dang uh so that's what's called tunneling uh so if you can like if you imagine like a tunnel and all your pitches are going down the tunnel and then at some point on the tunnel like if you're driving down the tunnel there's like a exit that comes off this way or an exit goes out that way

That's like the different pitch movements.

So you're in the same tunnel for part of the flight and pitches go off in different directions, but they split off too late for hitters to really be able to make many adjustments.

So that's like the gold standard.

No tipping, same exact delivery, same exact tunnel, different movements.

And DeGrom's like one of the best at this, which is why it's so fun to watch.

He throws three pitches.

They're all like 92 to 100.

So you have even less time at 100 miles an hour.

And then they all look the exact same until like halfway to the plate.

So hitter's like, well, I'm swinging.

at one location at 100 miles an hour and if it's either the other two pitches i'm screwed i have no shot and if it's 100 i'm probably not gonna hit it anyway because it's way too fast and like really hard to hit yeah and so you just put up like cyan numbers for like three or four straight years so that's why i put your hides the ball too they don't want to see like where it is on the hand yeah exactly holy crap that's fascinating yeah and then you have hitters that are hitting like 300 and hitting 50 homers and you're like how the hell are you doing this

Hall of Fame.

I can't do it.

Throw that.

Probably my last season hitting freshman year of high school.

Oh, yeah?