Longoria on Pitchers

Evan Longoria discusses the toughest pitchers he faces in the AL East. A sample, on Chris Sale:

People hear the word command and they think about pitch — about working the strike zone or painting the corners. But command is just as much about velocity as it as about placement. Every now and then you’ll see a guy who can throw a slider from 82 to 88 mph, or who has an 87-mph changeup that he can drop down to 82 mph when he wants to bury it.

Sale has the ability to vary speed like that with all of his pitches — especially his fastball, which he can throw anywhere from 89 to 99 mph.

Interesting throughout.

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