Miguel Sano does more with fastballs than anybody in the Majors. Who's crushing curves, sliders, change-ups and cutters?
Growing up on and around baseball fields, I remember hearing coaches and fans discuss how important it was to throw good off-speed and breaking stuff to bigger hitters. The reasoning? For those muscular types, fastballs were meat 'n potatoes.
As I got older, I watched players work their way out of that tight comfort zone. A stagnant curveball, for instance, was suddenly as meaty as a belt-high fastball and, as such, was sprayed to the gaps (and beyond) with ease.