The Welcome to episode 101 of the Sleeker and the Bus podcast brought to you by

fan graphs. We are in split locations. I am in Orlando and you know is still in Arizona wrapping up the the Saber conference

and the the fan graphs retreat correct? Yeah that's right it was a lot of fun

sorry I missed out on that but if you do hear some background noise that's not dog related, it will be

you know because he's in the hotel lobby because the Wi-Fi up in his room is not terribly strong.

So if you hear any background noise, that's what it is today. We will be focused on pitching we try to do this we

I'd hope to do this last Thursday just didn't work out with the crazy schedule you had out there going to games of whatnot

So this is the pitching podcast

that we promised you guys at the end of episode 100.

And we're going to focus on a couple of things,

the new pitch story that I wrote last week

and then the elite pitch story that you know wrote on Monday and the

one that he is going up later today about more balanced offerings from pitchers.

Let's jump right into it and talk about the new pitch

article. Roughly I found about 30 different pitchers that are working on new

pitches this spring and they keep pouring in. Last night I was at the hockey game

and I get a tweet from Corey Schwartz saying,

hey, Felipe Paulino, added a cutter yesterday.

Nobody's talked about it all spring.

He rolls it out in the game, throws five to eight,

and likes it.

So I mean, even at this point in spring training,

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