I talked to 18-year-old, right-handed pitcher Vince Deyzel after yesterday's game. He is one of two players from South Africa on the GCL Pirates. The other is shortstop Victor Ngoepe, the younger brother of Gift Ngoepe. The conversation yesterday was a follow up on one we had about three weeks earlier after he struck out four batters in two innings of work. Back then he mentioned an adjustment he made suggested by Tom Filer, who is the Assistant Pitching Coordinator for the Pirates, and who works with the young pitchers now in the GCL.
" I had been struggling with my breaking balls to find the right movement and even when I got the right movement it was all over the place," Deyzel said.