Graph of the Day: R.J. Swindle Breaks Pitch F/x

by erik on Apr 22, 2009 4:15 PM EDT Comment 4 comments

R.J. Swindle, BtB hero, made his Brewer debut last night. I don't know if Harry plans to tackle him in a full-length post or not; I sure hope so. In the meantime here is his slow stuff vs. his horizontal break.

According to Swindle himself:

I throw 5 pitches - fastball, curveball, slider, cutter, changeup. My fastball is about 81-84, my curveball that everyone knows me by is about 51-55, all the other pitches come somewhere in between.

Can you ID all five? I know pitch f/x had trouble. They classified his 55 mph curve as "unknown".

OK, I promise to lay off pitch f/x for a while, but I couldn't resist.

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He's sidearmed so I hope this is right

One of my favorites was when pitch f/x classified all of Swisher’s pitches as changeups.

by VictorW on Apr 22, 2009 5:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ding ding ding

we have a winner!

I don’t play a lot of video games, but R.J. Swindle is like the guy I always create as my character in MVP 2005. Low-velo fastball, a 55 mph laredo curve and a bunch of other funky breaking stuff of which I have near perfect command of.

Beyond the Boxscore

by erik on Apr 22, 2009 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs