Catcher Nick Hundley fixed Matt Cain‘s seams. Hundley noticed great movement on Cain’s two-seam fastball and ordered Cain to throw it as his main fastball:
Cain explained that he rarely relied on the two-seam fastball, which has movement and sink, because his power four-seam fastball had natural run. But after returning from his various arm injuries, Cain left a lot of those four-seamers over the plate, and they got crushed.
When Cain was dominant, his four-seam fastball stayed up in the zone, and hitters would get under it. That allowed Cain to be a pitcher who induced lots of fly balls without giving up very many home runs. Fly balls that don’t leave the park often come down in a fielder’s glove. That doesn’t work any more, so now batters will need to learn a new looks to Cain’s fastball.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2oYaEJ5
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