Inside Corner - Interview with Tommy Hunter

by Ted Price on Jul 23, 2009 11:57 AM CDT

Hey kids! It's time again for another video from Evan Grant of D Magazine's Inside Corner. Today, we talk with everyone's newest favorite Ranger pitcher Tommy Hunter whose outing Tuesday night against the Red Sox was a touch more successful than his outing last year in Boston.

He also talks about the hours, and hours, and hours he spent in OKC developing his cutter which he has used quite effectively since being called back to the Big Club.

And as always, please let the fine folks at D Magazine that you enjoy these player videos and would like to see more. (If you don't, let's just keep those opinions to ourselves shall we?)

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Dukes of Hazard

Tommy “Dukes of Hazard” Hunter… key music: “Just a good old boy, never meaning no harm…”

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by outofnace on Jul 23, 2009 1:24 PM CDT reply actions

Cut fastball, 2-seam, 4-seam fastball

What is the difference among these?

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by hightowersmith on Jul 23, 2009 2:23 PM CDT reply actions

I'll give it a try

cut FB – Mariano Rivera’s specialty. The ball will move right to left with little sink.

2 seam – Also called a sinker. The ball in thrown with less velocity than a 4 seamer, has some sinking action and maybe some horizontal movement also.

4 seam – Hardest thrown pitch velocity wise, may have some left to right tailing action to it.

These are just some general descriptions. Each pitcher has a little different action to thier pitches. For example, it looked like Hunter’s cut FB also had a little sink to it making it look like a hard slider.

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by RangerMad on Jul 23, 2009 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions

Someone

had a link to a blog post (BBTiA maybe?) a while back with pretty thorough descriptions of the spin, velocity and movements of several different pitch types. Anyone remember this?

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by TheJeezus on Jul 23, 2009 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions