Justin Steele‘s changeup has been a pet topic of mine since I talked to him about it at Cubs Convention five years ago, but it has never been more than a show-me offering. Even that might be too generous a description for a pitch he’s thrown very sparingly with inconsistent results. That tends to happen when you can’t develop a feel for it, which in this case was a matter of Steele trying to throw against his natural inclination.
By that, I mean he’s a heavy supinator who had been trying to throw a type of change up that required him to pronate, or get over the top of the ball.