Pitch identification

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/pitch-identification-
tutorial/

Interesting stuff, but a little hard to grasp since they decided to
place the origin at a point where a spinless ball would land (in a
vacuum? we know that a knuckleball is unpredictable).

It is interesting to me that all fastballs tail towards the hitter
(RHP vs RHB or LHP vs LHB; i.e., they tail opposite of the curveball
direction). I would have never guessed this.

I'd never heard of this new pitch tracking data. When I get
motivated, I think I might use it to track exactly how Andruw is
dealing with sliders (is that all that gets him out? does it take an
exceptional break to get him? is he starting to swing at pitches off
the plate had they been fastballs instead? how often does he get
them?).

It looks like curveballs have a 16 inch break downwards compared to a
fastball. No real point here, but it seemed like an interesting fact
to me.

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Cranial Crusader dgh 1138 at bell south point net