If Trevor Bauer played music, I’m positive that he would have the same setup as Nick Andopolis from the short-lived Freaks and Geeks. Rather than use a standard drum kit, why not fill an entire garage with every different variation of snare, cymbal, and cowbell?
While some pitchers cruise through a career with a fastball, slider, curveball, and changeup, Bauer seems determined at times to sample every imaginable pitch. According to Brooks Baseball, he’s thrown seven different types of pitches this season alone. That doesn’t begin to tap into some of the other bizarre things he’s thrown in his career: reverse sliders, dot sliders, cut changeups — 19 total as of 2011 alone, according to Sports Illustrated’s Lee Jenkins.