Refining, managing as many as 11 pitches creates questions in clubhouse
pitcher Yu Darvish more than conversations happening a few lockers away at the team’s spring-training complex.
They pitch for a living. Yet Darvish does things, is capable of things, tries things that make them wonder about the intersection of ability and creativity, where nothing involving a hand and a baseball seems impossible.said he was playing catch with Darvish in Texas,” said Clevinger, unrolling a tale. “He was like, ‘Nick, how do you hold your changeup.’ He showed him this weird grip. He goes out to watch him in his pregame routine and the first 12 throws, he’s doing that grip.
Like an ocean, Darvish’s mind and fingers rage at the surface while everything else remains serene below the exploding waves. “Now that we’re talking about this, that’s something I’d like to ask him and see what he’s doing to manage that. Does he pick a few a day to work on? Or does he touch on each of them every day? That’s a lot more difficult than people think.”“There are some pitches that I don’t even have to throw in the bullpen,” he said. “Like say the cutter or the hard curveball. The slider, too, for that matter. I’ve done it so many times, I don’t necessarily have to practice it in the bullpen.
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