Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 17, 2006
Gyro Coming to America

Via Deadspin, it looks like the Japanese pitcher who throws the Gyroball wants to play in the United States next year. It also appears Daisuke Matsuzaka can throw an unlimited number of pitches without hurting his arm. It's the return of the the complete game!

I hope he does come to the United States. He sounds too good to be true. Therefore, I'll be very skeptical of his future success. On the bright side, if the gyroball is everything we hear, there could be a pitching revolution that takes us back to the 1960s in terms of offense.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:53 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Why would Matsuzaka be expected to throw complete games in the US? Hideo Nomo racked up big pitch counts in Japan and left and was used in similar fashion to American pitchers once he got here.

Matsuzaka would likely garner a huge contract and no team is going to burn him out.

Posted by: Bob Timmermann at July 17, 2006 02:29 PM

Matsuzaka has had arm troubles before, though, I thought? Wasn't he sidelined for a period in 2003? No?

Posted by: Will at July 17, 2006 03:18 PM

Here's video of the pitch ... very cool rotation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yimyfjcf2f4

Posted by: Rich B at July 17, 2006 03:20 PM

I would love to see a pitching revolution... then we'll see the return of small ball style games and more hustle! With teams having to wait for the big HR, nobody really feels that base running is important anymore (unless you're playing against Piazza).

Posted by: Devon at July 17, 2006 03:38 PM

This video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sboi0EWp8ao&mode=related&search= seems to show the grip the pitcher uses. Although, the video itself doesn't seem to look like the pitch is all that special. Now this video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE4R8rYkUWE&mode=related&search= seems to show a wildly amazing pitch!

Posted by: Devon at July 17, 2006 03:42 PM

Looks like a sinking fastball, or am I missing something.

Posted by: rbj at July 17, 2006 08:07 PM

From the video, this just looks like a Screwball. I have used a similar grip to throw a screwball before.

Posted by: tdmsu at July 18, 2006 12:32 PM
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