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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
See my post. I think if you dig more deeply, the picture doesn't look quite as described.
As far as lightening his load/keeping him fresh, he did seem to have August slides in 13 and 14. I'd suggest lightening the workload early as a way to keep him fresher there.
The other room for improvement may be in convincing him to throw his slider more frequently to lefties. He has become more FB/change past few years, and lefties have hit him better than they did when he used the slider more.
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I think the slider is what damn near barbecued him in Tampa Bay.
I believe he's gotten away from it for self-preservation as much as anything. He just never learned to throw it in a way that doesn't put too much torque on the elbow so he appears to use it as a show-me pitch these days.
Can't argue too loudly against that given how close he was to out of baseball not too terribly long ago.