Mariano Rivera needs a Knuckleball-pitch
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He should have a perfect 99 movement/control cutter, with a similarly great 4-sm fastball. He'll also have a slider and change, but these should be average. He'll also have extremely high per-9's. Sounds pretty nasty to me.
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He should have 99 control and a 97mph cutter with movement we have never seen before. It should put Jansens cutter almost to shame. And that realistic
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Cutter, Sinker, 2Seam, Change would work just fine. I know he was primarily a cutter pitcher but he threw each of those pitches at one point in his career. I saw a slider as well, but many believe that slider turned into his cutter.
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what about 2 cutters of different speeds. have one around 97 then another at 90. I think that would mess me up quite a bit. plus add a change up and sinker
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@Ryan_2713 said in Mariano Rivera needs a Knuckleball-pitch:
what about 2 cutters of different speeds. have one around 97 then another at 90. I think that would mess me up quite a bit. plus add a change up and sinker
Jesus. That would be end-game.
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@Ryan_2713 said in Mariano Rivera needs a Knuckleball-pitch:
what about 2 cutters of different speeds. have one around 97 then another at 90. I think that would mess me up quite a bit. plus add a change up and sinker
I was reading something the other day about how that was the trick to his cutter. Different grips and different speeds. He was the master of the fastball.
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I think people forget how devastating his two-seamer was, as well.
He regularly got players to sit cutter and take a third strike on that.
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When he was coming up through the farm system he was a starter and capable of throwing a Change up and slider, he just didn't need them haha.
I think they could get away with him having a cutter, 2 seam, slider, and change up.
Cutter could be like 97 and the slider could be around 90, because he did throw two different cutters!
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@cvogsfashow said in Mariano Rivera needs a Knuckleball-pitch:
Cutter could be like 97 and the slider could be around 90, because he did throw two different cutters!
90-93 on that slider at least. And the 2 seam better be so nasty or they gotta add a sinker too.
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@MrGamebred said in Mariano Rivera needs a Knuckleball-pitch:
@cvogsfashow said in Mariano Rivera needs a Knuckleball-pitch:
Cutter could be like 97 and the slider could be around 90, because he did throw two different cutters!
90-93 on that slider at least. And the 2 seam better be so nasty or they gotta add a sinker too.
Agreed, just because his pitches moved so much and were so devastating, in order to make him a very usable card. They could also get away with Cutter, 2S, Sinker, Slider, Change up. I doubt they give him a five pitch arsenal....but you never know he is the best closer to ever play the game of Baseball so jack that card up like they did with a lot of the SS this year.
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@cvogsfashow said in Mariano Rivera needs a Knuckleball-pitch:
Agreed, just because his pitches moved so much and were so devastating, in order to make him a very usable card. They could also get away with Cutter, 2S, Sinker, Slider, Change up. I doubt they give him a five pitch arsenal....but you never know he is the best closer to ever play the game of Baseball so jack that card up like they did with a lot of the SS this year.
100%. It'd be a sin to not give him a 5 pitch repertoire IMO and then kenley Jansen gets 5..
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