barry zito's curveball

8/8/2006 2:30:10 PM

eephus

8/8/2006 2:30:41 PM

Mike Scott's spit ball.

8/8/2006 2:31:22 PM

circle change

8/8/2006 2:32:06 PM

who was that rangers knuckleball pitcher who gave up like five homers at the beginning of the season

i nominate him for worst pitch in baseball

[Edited on August 8, 2006 at 2:32 PM. Reason : ]

8/8/2006 2:32:25 PM

jose canseco's "blown out right elbow slow shit pitch"

8/8/2006 2:34:20 PM

eephus

8/8/2006 2:34:23 PM

Mark Grace's heater.

8/8/2006 2:36:31 PM

either the aforementioned ephos pitch or Tom Gordon's curveball

8/8/2006 2:39:44 PM

mariano rivera's cutter

8/8/2006 2:41:16 PM

that guy from japans gyroball

8/8/2006 2:48:32 PM

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"Tom Gordon's curveball"

This was thrown in as a joke, right? Just wanted to make sure.

^^ best cutter in history

[Edited on August 8, 2006 at 2:51 PM. Reason : x]

8/8/2006 2:50:41 PM

id say the smoltz splitter is a tough one to handle but then again the Koch fastball was almost impossible to touch

8/8/2006 2:51:02 PM

Koch? More like Crotch.

8/8/2006 2:55:36 PM

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"who was that rangers knuckleball pitcher who gave up like five homers at the beginning of the season i nominate him for worst pitch in baseball"

R.A. Dickey

8/8/2006 4:00:03 PM

Koch....look it up

8/8/2006 5:29:57 PM

all I know about koch is that he blew ass for the sox

8/8/2006 5:31:23 PM

Randy Johnson's slider was unhittable in his prime, especially for a left-handed batter.

8/8/2006 5:31:37 PM

Joey Devine's heater that doesn't land for 440 feet!

8/8/2006 5:35:09 PM

Jose Canseco's knuckle ball

8/8/2006 5:50:53 PM

Wakefield's knuckle. Ask Mirabelli.

8/8/2006 6:36:44 PM

Wakefield's knuckle is unhittable if it knuckles, otherwise it is gone

8/8/2006 10:27:43 PM

the eliminator by wildthing

8/8/2006 10:30:05 PM

Zane Smith's split-fork-knuckle-curve...

8/8/2006 11:32:42 PM

Quote :

"Mark Grace's heater."

beat me to it

i will go ahead and nominate the knucklepuck, there is just no stopping that shit.

8/8/2006 11:35:01 PM

nolan ryans rising fastball

8/9/2006 10:34:10 AM

^that was a bad ass pitch at 100mph

8/9/2006 10:35:04 AM

Quote :

"barry zito's curveball"

8/9/2006 12:03:57 PM

spitball....too bad its banned, got kicked out of a high school game for throwing it

[Edited on August 9, 2006 at 1:24 PM. Reason : .]

8/9/2006 1:24:45 PM

you would do something like that ranger....how abour roy hallidays knuckle curve try hittin that shit

8/9/2006 1:36:55 PM

Rietsma's fastball

8/9/2006 2:06:20 PM

Quote :

"the eliminator by wildthing"

I laughed.


Most hitters will say Rivera's cutter. Most announcers will, as well.

I also agree.


But, I will make some other nominations:

Best pitches CURRENTLY in baseball:
Clemens splitter
Halliday's sinker
Chien Ming Wang's sinker
Liriano and Santana's changeups
Ben Sheet's curveball
Prior's curveball


Best Ever
Nolan's fastball
Sutter's splittie
Gooden's curve
Kofax's curve
Unit's prime Slider

8/9/2006 2:17:13 PM

didnt greg maddux have a pitch about 10 years ago that was really good?

like it always caused hitters to ground out

[Edited on August 9, 2006 at 2:18 PM. Reason : ^haha i laughed at the wildthing comment too]

8/9/2006 2:18:03 PM

Who cares about baseball?

8/9/2006 2:20:09 PM

Maddux is a nibbler. He doesn't have one dominating pitch. It's no secret the Braves pitchers got more of the plate then anyone else anyway, which is ONE reason Glavine and Maddux were so succesful. Personally I think Smoltz was the best of the 3 since he is able to do it even with Questech..

I'm still lauging about someone including Tom Gordon's curveball.

8/9/2006 2:21:03 PM

maddux, glavine, and smoltz got no more of the plate than any other cy young winner who pitches on the corners

and i almost forgot about santana's change, that shit is nasty

[Edited on August 9, 2006 at 2:32 PM. Reason : ]

8/9/2006 2:32:29 PM

the best pitch in baseball is a 98+ fastball that is put just in the right spot...

8/9/2006 2:38:59 PM

um, thanks for your contribution?

8/9/2006 2:42:56 PM

...with movement

8/9/2006 2:43:08 PM

Maddux's 2-seamer in the 90s was pretty dominate.

Trevor Hoffman's changeup and Johan Santana's Circle AND regular changeup come to mind too.

8/9/2006 2:50:01 PM

^^^^ no

[Edited on August 9, 2006 at 3:02 PM. Reason : asdf]

8/9/2006 3:02:03 PM

when he was 100%, kerry wood had a pretty dirty slider

8/9/2006 3:17:08 PM

not as good as the units

8/9/2006 3:18:36 PM

randy johnson is also 6'11 and left-handed...

8/9/2006 3:38:41 PM

which makes his pitch better than wood's

8/9/2006 5:05:18 PM

Orlando Hernandez and when he brings the mid 90's fastball following with his curveball, flicking the booger, at 56mph

8/9/2006 5:20:49 PM

Zito's curve when it's going form the letters to the shoestrings in an instant, when he hangs it, look out. Francisco Rodriguez of the angels has some nasty stuff, most notably his slider

8/9/2006 5:51:14 PM

changeup and fastball

that's all you need

8/9/2006 6:13:43 PM

soon to be verlander's knuckle curve

8/9/2006 6:17:28 PM