Comments on: The Feliz Report: Rookie Hits 101 MPH In Debut

By: Now Pitching For The Texas Rangers… « Bus Leagues Baseball

Now Pitching For The Texas Rangers… « Bus Leagues Baseball — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:17:38 +0000

[...] throw really, really hard these days, but Feliz seemed to evoke a different feeling than most during his major league debut on Monday. The 21-year-old Dominican came on to start the sixth inning with the Rangers leading, 1-0, and [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:15:04 +0000

Feliz reminded me of a young Mariano Rivera when he first came up with the Yankees – very, very smooth delivery and high heat – setting up a wicker cutter to finish off many batters.

Rivera debuted in the league in 1995 as a starting pitcher, but found success after being converted to a reliever role in the bullpen. After a breakthrough year in 1996 as a setup man, he became the Yankees’ closer in 1997 and has maintained that role for the team ever since.

By: Roundup of Neftali Feliz reviews from last night

Roundup of Neftali Feliz reviews from last night — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:21:42 +0000

[...] Evan Grant has some comments from teammates on Feliz. [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:08:57 +0000

Eric Nadel is adorable.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:09:39 +0000

Watching his grip on the splitter (which definitely moved like a splitter), he was holding it like a circle change. Starting from his crazy velocity, there’s a number of grips that probably move very differently than if it was Eddie Guardado using the same grip. I couldn’t see the grip on his slider, but it certainly moved and had the velocity of a curve.

By: Sriram

Sriram — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:04:16 +0000

Splitter, change, something in between, whatever it is, I think there’s one thing we can say for sure – that pitch is going to make a lot of major league hitters look incredibly foolish.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:41:26 +0000

Can we make him the closer now?

By: Ralphie

Ralphie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:05:11 +0000

Splitter was nasty! It is also probably the worst pitch on the elbow.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:42:44 +0000

Yeah, I was mesmerized by what he was throwing, so I slowed it down and rewatched it a bunch of times. You could see it was a splitter. (Well, if you were watching in HD on a big screen, that is )

By: JRB

JRB — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:18:19 +0000

@Badspellr: Yeah, funny thing about the slider/curve issue…for most humans, thr speed is definitely a slider (as is the motion), but sliders are typically 10 mph slower than their fastball. Feliz’s “slider” is about 20 mph slower. That’s a delta more akin to a curveball.

I vote for slurve.