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Old 07-30-2010, 12:02 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by koohead View Post
I know I'm getting nit-picky, but you can't really throw a "changeup" if you don't throw a "fastball". I mean, technically in a knuckleballer's case, the fastball would be the "change-up". as SF pointed out with Wakefield. guess if it were a circle change or palm ball or something then that would be ok I suppose.

A fastball is thrown with 2 fingers across or with the seams. A changeup is thrown with the whole hand, a palm or some times even a split fingered grip.

basically what im saying is that its the grip that determines the pitch, not the speed.

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