what is a knuckle-ball, exactly? I never knew
what is the benefit?
It’s pretty hard to throw a baseball with no spin consistently just playing catch, to do it with major league movement for strikes seems impossible to me. Truly the most ‘feel’ of all pitches. It’s a shame it seems to be nigh extinct, they just don’t have patience in development. There’s a good documentary called ‘knuckleball!” that features Wakefield heavily, I think during the 2012 R.A. Dickey Cy Young season if I recall.
Freegards
One thing you can say about pitchers that throw the knuckleball…they’re not likely to ever need TJ. And that’s something these days.
[[I could never get the hang of it.]]
Lol- Punny