With the passing of Fernando Valenzuela, who pitched the majority of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, I was prompted to produce a podcast about his most effective pitch: the screwball. He is one of the very few pitchers in MLB who relied on the screwball to get hitters out, and he and other prominent pitchers of his era, as well as pitchers from the nascent times of MLB, used the screwball without suffering the career-ending arm injuries that pundits warned as its final consequence.

Rest in Peace, Fernando Valenzuela (1960-2024)

Music: “Field Grass” by Sergei Pavkin

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