"Sometimes hitters can pick up differences in spin, they can pick up different pitches. But if a pitcher can change speeds, every hitter is helpless, limited by human vision. You just can’t do it.”

“Except for that fucker Tony Gwynn."

- Greg Maddux
Reposted from Tom Scocca
My favorite Maddux fact was that Tony Gwynn owned him because Maddux's thing was to confound batters by delivering his whole array of pitches from exactly the same arm position and motion, and Gwynn would just look at the ball and read what pitch was coming out of his hand by seeing the stitches

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