{"id":13871,"date":"2017-05-27T20:47:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T00:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13871"},"modified":"2017-05-27T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T00:47:19","slug":"so-this-is-what-a-96mph-cutter-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13871","title":{"rendered":"So this is what a 96mph cutter looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The right guy is finally closing. Photo via mlb.com<\/p><\/div>\n

New anointed Nationals closer\u00a0Koda Glover<\/strong> came into Friday night’s game in what was absolutely a “save situation.” \u00a0Max Scherzer<\/strong> ran out of gas, clearly, had loaded the bases and the tying run was at the plate.<\/p>\n

What’d he do? \u00a0He threw four “sliders,” all of them between 95.4 and 96.4 MPH<\/a>, all of them unhittable,\u00a0and struck out\u00a0Hunter Renfroe<\/strong> with ease to close the game out.<\/p>\n

Here’s the video of the final pitch:\u00a0http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/video\/v1430295083\/sdwsh-glover-strikes-out-renfroe-to-notch-the-save\/?game_pk=490824<\/p>\n

Now, some might call his pitch a cutter; Glover refers to it as a cutter while Pitch F\/X classifies it as a slider. \u00a0It seems to me to be somewhere in between in terms of movement: i think it moves more than\u00a0Mariano Rivera<\/strong>‘s cutter\/cut-fastball, but doesn’t move as sharply as other sliders that we’ve seen. \u00a0Either way, a 96 mph pitch with that kind of movement is a heck of a pitch.<\/p>\n

Lots of people freaked out when\u00a0Noah Snydergaard<\/strong> debuted his 95mph slider, which looks like an actual slider (see video evidence here<\/a>) more than Glover’s. \u00a0And Snydergaard’s pitch is pretty amazing. \u00a0But so is a 96-mph cut-fastball, especially from a guy who really doesn’t have that much time in the majors and who might be improving\/learning as we speak.<\/p>\n

Glover should have been the closer from day one and now he is; i’m guessing he doesn’t get supplanted from the role for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New anointed Nationals closer\u00a0Koda Glover came into Friday night’s game in what was absolutely a “save situation.” \u00a0Max Scherzer ran out of gas, clearly, had loaded the bases and the tying run was at the plate. What’d he do? \u00a0He threw four “sliders,” all of them between 95.4 and 96.4 MPH, all of them unhittable,\u00a0and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1794,2827,171,1037,2326],"class_list":["post-13871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-hunter-renfroe","tag-koda-glover","tag-mariano-rivera","tag-max-scherzer","tag-noah-snydergaard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13874,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13871\/revisions\/13874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}