Video: This Is Probably Maikel Cleto’s Two-Seamer
Listen, bespectacled reader, we don’t need to discuss the specific course of events that have led me to watch the above footage — from a June 2011 baseball game between the Cardinals and Giants — this footage of Maikel Cleto striking out Nate Schierholtz over and over and over again on a frigid Wisconsin night. Let’s just all agree that it’s the sort of thing that’d happen to anyone who happens to find himself with a digestif in one hand and a computer mouse in the other.
In any case, please take this opportunity to welcome both Maikel Cleto and what is probably his 92 mph two-seam fastball into your world. And your pants, too. If you’re into that sort of thing.
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The pitch does move quite a bit, but it never looked like a strike in the first place.
It’s almost like you’re suggesting that Nate Schierholtz features something LESS than exquisite plate discipline.
Pssh.
These were both my first thought, and my immediate reaction to my own first thought. Well done.