Be you warned, for here there be .gifs.
That's 16 inches of 12-6 break that would look terrific against lefties and righties alike. Whether Jakubauskas is a nobody stopgap or someone we'll have to take seriously - a lot of it comes down to his command of this pitch. Learn to spot that thing and we could be talking about some kind of late-blooming, right-handed Wandy Rodriguez.
Ye gods, that's fun to watch.
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That pitch is a thing of beauty
pdb - April 23, 2009
Almost Greinke-like.
abender20 - April 23, 2009
I highly doubt one gif will crash someone's computer.
JI - April 23, 2009
People love to complain
Jeff Sullivan - April 23, 2009
?
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/4/19/844594/ot-thread-fauxs-ballpark#14465518
Faux - April 23, 2009
Everybody's a Robert these days
Jeff Sullivan - April 23, 2009
Seems to be the path to redemption.
Sec 108 - April 23, 2009
I thought you just meant about the site.
JI - April 23, 2009
?
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/4/17/843397/griffey-brings-back-old-mojo#14414854
seattlebruin - April 23, 2009
Better?
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/4/22/849805/9-6-chart#14611188
Faux - April 23, 2009
The rehab is almost over!
And when I get back I will be stronger then before like the kid in Rookie of the Year
Robert - April 23, 2009
Yeah I'm pretty pissed I haven't gotten a Roengardener fastball out of this
JI - April 23, 2009
Gardenhoser.
DCMariner - April 23, 2009
Interesting
.Taylor - April 27, 2009
I promise that if LL wins the Twitter5K
that I will personally start updating our Twitter account regularly with exciting new tidbits.
Matthew - April 23, 2009
Screenshotted!
seattlebruin - April 23, 2009
That was not a tongue-in-cheek comment either.
I will seriously do it.
Matthew - April 23, 2009
Taylor, I know you're reading this
seattlebruin - April 23, 2009
:D
.Taylor - April 23, 2009
We still need 2 more people to sign up for Silver and Black Pride.
Faux - April 23, 2009
I was one of the first followers!
Aaron Campeau - April 23, 2009
Already sounds like you anyway.
Kirsten Schlewitz - April 23, 2009
[Obligatory bran muffin joke]
Faux - April 23, 2009
So you mean it will go from completely useless to mildly completely useless?
Robert - April 23, 2009
You'd be surprised.
The computers we have at work struggle with them quite mightly. Even after letting the page load up here for a few minutes it’s still running really choppy
Fuzz - April 23, 2009
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/9/20/618144/9-20-open-game-thread#8870281
JI - April 23, 2009
Nicely done and point taken
Fuzz - April 23, 2009
Tell me about it.
JI - April 23, 2009
SBN 2.0wned again
JI - April 23, 2009
In your defense we've only been using it for a year now.
Aaron Campeau - April 23, 2009
Actually it's a fairly regular bug when you try to respond to the bottom comment on the page.
JI - April 23, 2009
"bug," eh?
Sort of like the “Sudden Acceleration Syndrome” that was such a big thing a decade ago?
esoteric - April 23, 2009
No as it many times when you hit reply then type in your reply then you hit post your reply ends up in a different place than the screen led you to believe
JI - April 23, 2009
It's because new comments highlight automatically.
I would imagine that If you hit ‘reply’ at the exact moment of the auto-update it gets confused and puts the reply in the new comment box. It’s never happened to me and I never use the keyboard reply shortcut.
Aaron Campeau - April 23, 2009
Jakabuaskas is essentially a right handed Rich Hill, no?
An underwhelming fastball, spotty command, and an awe inspiring curve.
abender20 - April 23, 2009
He's not Rich Hill
untill he completely looses his emotional stability, blames his problems on back problems, gets shipped out of the organization, then really gets himself hurt.
snowyman28 - April 23, 2009
It's a damn fine pitch but I still want him to throw his change.
He threw three last night. Three. 2 of them found the strike zone, so it’s not like he couldn’t command it.
Did they all get hammered or something?
marc w - April 23, 2009
Can't remember all three,
but at least one definitely got destroyed, either in the first or second. It was a bad change, down the middle, and scorched for a 2-run double, if I remember correctly.
sammy - April 23, 2009
Meh
It’s a big slow curve. If he throws it for a strike, it probably gets golfed into the upper deck.
davidcameron - April 23, 2009
I'll grant that there may be some scouting aspect I'm missing
but it’s got a ton of downward movement and it’s not really any slower than Bedard, Beckett, or Rodriguez’s. I’d like to see a lot more of it.
Jeff Sullivan - April 23, 2009
Big differences
Bedard’s curve moves as much sideways as down.
Beckett throws 95.
Wandy Rodriguez is an outlier.
There are a bunch of guys in the minors who have a 90 MPH fastball and a 75 MPH 12-6 curveball. Most of them suck.
davidcameron - April 23, 2009
It reminds me of Zito's curve
when Zito was effective.
sammy - April 23, 2009
It's worth noting
That almost all of the successful 90 MPH FB/75 MPH CB types are lefties.
Realistically, a better comparison is probably Dustin Moseley.
davidcameron - April 23, 2009
What about Aaron Sele?
Scruffy Lefty - April 23, 2009
Didn't throw close to 90MPH
(Maybe when he first came up or something, but Sele was lobbing it up there at 85-88 for many years)
marc w - April 23, 2009
And he didn't suck to much.
Scruffy Lefty - April 23, 2009
Silence!
The Jakubaustritch will rise from its ashes to reassert its mastery over AL hitters!
marc w - April 23, 2009
Jakubauskas' curve consistently has the most vertical break of any I've looked at
About four inches more than Moseley’s. I feel like that has to be worth something.
Jeff Sullivan - April 23, 2009
This seems better than your average 12-6 curveball though.
It seems to have much more drop (to my eyes).
Thingray - April 23, 2009
Someone replaced your kool-aid with HATER-aid!
>:(
johnbai - April 23, 2009
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/4/23/850298/the-main-reason-im-willing-to-be#14622776
seattlebruin - April 23, 2009
Just for the record, this comment was made ironically.
seattlebruin - April 23, 2009
Barry Zito throws the same curve
With a few more starts he might be in line to be a grossly overpaid pitcher with a ridiculous curveball.
HitKing69 - April 23, 2009
I'm still a Perez man
JI - April 23, 2009
Seems like MLB has had a lot of random human interest/feel good story players making it the last couple years
whether it be coming back from drugs (Josh Hamilton), career in the indy leagues (Jak), career-threatening injury (Kapler) or whatever-the-hell-Rick-Ankiel had (Ankiel)
seattlebruin - April 23, 2009
Nerve problem in his arm that kept him from gripping the ball, if I remember correctly.
Faux - April 23, 2009
A bit off topic, but
Shannon Drayer is on KIRO and just mentioned that they might go with Burke at 1st tonight, so be warned.
Man, Drayer is awesome. She couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t just move Lopez to 1st and go with Cedeno at 2nd again and when asked about what Felix needs to do today she stated that he should take note of how Washburn pitched the other day and really try to mix up his pitches.
Zack - April 23, 2009
Wow.
Wak sure isn’t afraid to try new things, is he?
Thingray - April 23, 2009
Who do we need to kidnap for Chris Shelton to get into the lineup?
Decatur - April 23, 2009
Is he on the 40?
That might be an issue. Also, they might not want to make a roster move until they know how long Branyan and Sweeney will be out.
Thingray - April 23, 2009
Good point. No, he's not on the 40-man roster right now.
I’m just so sad. Chone projects Shelton to be our most productive player after Branyan. ZiPS, Bill James, and Oliver have him even better.
Decatur - April 23, 2009
Per Condotta (filling in for Baker)
He doesn’t have a choice. Sweeney and Branyan have back spasms, and Cedeno has a hammy flaring up…
PositivePaul - April 23, 2009
Poor Sean Green just absolutely imploded versus the Cardinals.
redwolf75 - April 23, 2009
Yeah... wow.
Check out Tony’s strange bullpen usage too. Was it really necessary to bring Motte in for one final out?
johnbai - April 23, 2009
We don't question Tony's logic in Cardinal land
However outlandish and insane it may be…
Fuzz - April 23, 2009
JI does it all the time.
Aaron Campeau - April 23, 2009
Fuzz's Cardinal Land has more cumulative recs than JI's does.
Robert - April 23, 2009
I literally fell asleep during the pitching changes
JI - April 23, 2009
If you use Firefox and have trouble with gifs
This might be of some interest. I’m often using an old shitbox (P4 2.6ghz, 2GB Ram) on a very average cable connection and gifs are almost never a problem since I made these adjustments.
Big Jared - April 23, 2009
Hey thats great man! Thanks for the link
Kermit. - April 23, 2009
My computer is running on much less and has never had a problem
JI - April 23, 2009
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