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Major League Pitchers

Monday, April 13th, 2009
by Travis999

Power Pitchers Versus Contact Pitchers

Power pitchers are becoming more common in Major League baseball. Everyone wants to see a triple digit pitch and a home run when they go to a ball game. I think Greg Maddox said it best “chicks dig the long ball” even though he was talking about home runs this applies to pitchers. Fans love to watch the power pitcher. Not only do fans love flame throwers, but coaches and scouts also have come to love the hard throwers. Now a days to get drafted as a right handed pitcher you have to be at least throwing ninety miles per hour. These power pitchers can dominate a game with one pitch. A great example is Nolan Ryan when he first came up to the big leagues with the Mets he had one pitch and that was his fast ball. Possibly one of the most dominating pitches baseballs has ever seen reaching a hundred and two miles per hour. While they can dominate a game, power pitchers are much more inconsistent mainly because of there inability to throw strikes. A great example of this is Daniel Cabrera on the Washington Nationals. While Cabrera can throw a hundred miles an hour he has an under five hundred career record. If you have ever watched him pitch you know that some games he will be unhittable and the others he will walk six batters and not make it past the fourth inning. Nolan Ryan changed the game forever. Now every little kids wants to grow up and throw “gas”.

While contact pitchers do not have the “wow” factor they can be just as effective. Contact pitchers might now get as many strike outs or no hitters but they will be consistent and find a way to win. Greg Maddox and Tom Glavine two of the best pitchers to ever play are both contact pitchers. Neither have ever led the league in strike outs or threw ninety miles per hour but both are three hundred game winners. Pitching to contact takes a lot of mental strength. It is nerve racking letting people hit the ball against you. But the odds are in your favor if you do. A Hall of Fame hitter will get a hit 1 out of every three times. This means that if you throw strikes and they hit the ball more times then not they will get out. The game has changed a lot over the last ten years and there are fewer and fewer contact pitchers. This is a shame because it shouldn’t be about how hard you throw it should be about who can win. If Greg Maddox was a high school or college pitcher today he might not have ever got the chance to have won three hundred games.