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Baseball Musings
March 05, 2008
Changing Again

Once again, Jeremy Bonderman works on his changeup:

We've been through this before with Jeremy Bonderman.

The Detroit Tigers say he needs a changeup. He agrees. Then Bonderman declares he has finally found the changeup and vows to use it regularly.

"I think this pitch is going to work for me, I really do," he said, a year ago this week. "I'm going to use it, no matter what."

And then, according to stats compiled by Bill James, Bonderman threw his changeup just six percent of the time during the regular season, a number Bonderman said Monday sounded pretty accurate to him.

Bonderman feels more comfortable with the grip this year. While a lot was made of Bonderman's poor first innings last year, he also pitched poorly in the third. This suggests to me that he has trouble with good hitters, the kind you find at the top of the order. The batting order splits (so the same page) bear this out. A good changeup might make him more effective against these good hitters, and that would bring down his ERA.

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Posted by David Pinto at 08:52 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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