DENVER -- Not that Rockies pitching coach Steve Foster has been swayed the least, but watching the breaking ball star this postseason has kept him entertained.
Foster admired how Mickey Callaway's emphasis on the breaking ball as the Indians' pitching coach led to his being hired to manage the Mets. Foster marveled as Lance McCullers Jr. put the Astros in the World Series by baffling the Yankees with 24 straight curveballs to end the American League Championship Series.
Yet, Foster leads a young, power-based Rockies pitching staff that threw the prime power pitch, the four-seam fastball, harder than all but two teams this season.