New Pitches
It’s spring training, and that means pitchers are refining their arsenals. Here are some of the guys that are working on new pitches this spring:
- Hiroki Kuroda: changeup
- Toshi Yamaguchi: curve
- Yuki Saito: cut fastball
- Ryota Igarashi: slider
- Hideki Okajima: “split-change”
- Shunsuke Watanabe: “trade secret pitches” in his own words: “I tried three and two worked well. I’m going to keep trying them out without worrying about the results.”
- Hitoki Iwase: sinker
- Yuya Ando: changeup
- Tetsuya Utsumi: cut fastball
- Kazuhito Futagami: forkball
- Norihito Kaneto: knuckleball
- Casey Fossum: forkball
- Takumi Akiyama: forkball
- Yusei Kikuchi: had been working on a forkball, but now putting it aside
We’ll have to wait and see what from this list survives to see game action.