I suppose this makes sense somehow

[charlieoscar]

I suppose this makes sense somehow in context, but...

"I never threw as hard as I could, because I didn’t throw hard enough to do that."

Dave Bush, pitching development analyst as quoted by Mastrodonato in the Boston Herald today

 

[BornToRun]

"I didn't try to rear back and blow it by hitters because I didn't have the velocity to do that."

Makes sense when you clean it up a bit.

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

"I didn't try to rear back and blow it by hitters because I didn't have the velocity to do that."

Makes sense when you clean it up a bit.

Right. Like, if your easy/sustainable velocity is 90 and "throwing as hard as you could" will get you to maybe 93, then there's no point in putting that extra stress on your arm because you're still not getting up into the overpowering range. You're going to have to come up with other ways to get people out.

It does have kind of a Yogi ring to it, though.

 

[charlieoscar]

That's probably what he was meaning to say but I like his version better.

 

[Ale Xander]

Isn't that the theory behind knuckleballing?"

 

[Omar's Wacky Neighbor]

Who they used to say it about, maybe Galen Cisco or Roger Craig: you have to be a pretty good starter/pitcher to lose 20 games in a season.