Yankees fans have been clamoring for an impact addition offseason and they finally got one: The guy who said he would strike out Babe Ruth every time. Last offseason, Adam Ottavino re-invented himself by throwing in a vacant Manhattan storefront, a former Nine West store that his father-in-law, a real estate developer, was looking to rent out for $22,000 a month. He would let Ottavino work out in the facility for a small fee: A Nolan Arenado-signed bat. With the help of high-tech cameras -- and after a week at the Driveline baseball facility outside Seattle to help understand the technology -- Ottavino developed a new pitch to go with his fastball and Wiffleball-like slider, a cutter that he could throw more often in the strike zone than his slider, against which batters had learned to lay off.
Forget Babe Ruth, Yankees get the guy who could strike him out
