ITT: Post your favorite nasty pitch

[Filthy Dangles]

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[TF97]

There are too many to name, but Chaz Roe’s physics defying slider has always amazed me.

 

[Neutrinos]

 

[Cassano]

I was gonna post OP's lol.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

I was gonna post OP's lol.

lol das it. Kershaw's hook is legendary.

 

[Dr Pepper]

I'll never get tired of this one. An effective eephus can be so beautiful.

 

[Elvis P]

 

[WeWantTacos]

 

[Tecumseh]

Give some love to a well-executed eephus pitch

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Pedro's circle changeup was unhittable and one of the nastiest the league has seen.

to have a changeup 20mph below your fastball is crazy enough (95-98 fastball, 76-78 changeup), but to throw the circle change that sinks just isnt fair.

 

[542365]

I can't post the video, but there are hundreds out there I'm sure. I loved Greg Maddux's two seamer that he started at the hip of a lefty and tailed it back over the inside corner. Basically unhittable.

Also loved Waino's curveball back in the day that would drop like 4 feet at the last second. Randy Johnson's slider, and a Jordan Hicks 100 MPH sinker would also make my list of favorites.

 

[KevFu]

Noah Syndergaard's 97 mph slider

https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/ClEX2LpUYAQ2-e-.mp4

 

[ecemleafs]

Randy Johnson's slider, maddux's 2 seamer, mo's cutter, mussina's knuckle curve

 

[Oscar Acosta]

The Mariano Rivera Cutter

Read his autobiography, it almost makes you believe in God like he does. He swears he was almost out of baseball and his fastball overnight got the cutter, some sort of divine intervention he doesn't even try to do ha.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Noah Syndergaard's 97 mph slider

https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/ClEX2LpUYAQ2-e-.mp4

He and Blake Treinen definitely throw the hardest "offspeed" stuff.

 

[KevFu]

He and Blake Treinen definitely throw the hardest "offspeed" stuff.

Yeah, Thor's change-up is 92 mph.

 

[bluesfan94]

Yeah, Thor's change-up is 92 mph.

Meanwhile, my fastball is a solid 65

 

[KevFu]

Meanwhile, my fastball is a solid 65

I cracked 60 once.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

I used to be consistently in the low 80's. Worked well in high school. College.....not so much.

 

[Finster8]

The Ross Grimsley super slow ball when he was in Montreal. Once clocked at 42 mph. He won 20 games for the Expos in the 70's.

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

 

[Brodeur]

It was mentioned in the Kyler Murray thread, but I didn't know until last week that the batter in the bird video is Murray's uncle.

 

[Skin Tape Session]

Wakefields knuckleball

 

[Dr Pepper]

Wakefields knuckleball

From the first time I ever watched him pitch, I always felt like Tim Wakefield had the strangest delivery. Maybe that's just due to the knuckleball. So upright. But he was like the polar opposite of a submariner like Tekulve or O'Day.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

I had a few coaches who could throw knuckles. Always crushed the shit out of them. Was disappointed that none of the opposing pitchers I ever faced threw one.