If there’s one quality that best defines Yu Darvish, it’s the ease with which his first name can be used for puns. But if we’re forced (reluctantly) to limit the criteria to just his athletic prowess, pitchability would be at the top of the list. More than just a made-up word, this baseball-riffic portmanteau refers to a pitcher’s ability to throw any pitch in any given situation.
By now you’ve surely seen the ubiquitous GIF that shows Darvish unfairly cutting loose five different offerings, all from the exact same release point, to that guy who used to rake in St.