(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News)
Detroit – Blaine Hardy may be married to a scientist, but the Tigers’ left-handed reliever isn’t much interested in all the techno-analytical babble that pervades his craft these days — spin rates, spin axis, spin efficiency, blah, blah, blah.
Truth be told, Nicky Hardy pays more attention to that stuff than her husband does. Blaine Hardy is just old-fashioned that way.
“I’ve never been huge on letting the numbers dictate what I should throw,” he said. “The hitter will tell you everything you need to know by how he is swinging at a pitch.