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SAN FRANCISCO – Cubs left-hander Justin Steele started picking up on a trend against fellow National League Central teams last season.
“I felt like the Reds, the Pirates, different teams in our division, I was starting to see some adjustments being made,” he said. “Whether it was laying laying off of it, making me have to throw over the zone, or turning the inside part of the plate into the middle and just laying off the outside part of the plate.”
He was mostly throwing two pitches at the time, his four-seam fastball and slider, which both broke in on right-handed hitters.