Forward of His Yankees Debut, Carlos Rodón Talks About His Signature Slider
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When Carlos Rodón returns to the mound tonight — the 30-year-old New York Yankees southpaw has been out all season with forearm and again points — he’ll be doing so with one in all baseball’s best-known sliders. Long his signature pitch, it has contributed closely to his success, which features a 2.67 ERA, a 2.42 FIP, and a 12.23 Ok/9 charge between the 2021 and ’22 campaigns. As far again as 2016, former FanGraphs columnist (and now Tampa Bay Rays analyst) Jeff Sullivan in contrast Rodón’s slider to the one thrown by future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw.
Harkening again to my Learning and Developing a Pitch collection, which has been on hiatus since final July, I just lately requested Rodón for the story behind his slider.
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