"Be careful with the slider," Jim Edmonds muttered, his knuckles white as he clutched his notes tighter and tighter in his fist.
"Be careful with the slider," I mimicked in my dreary state, eyelids drooping closed with fatigue as the game continued on later and later into the night.
"Be careful with slider," my dog repeated frantically looking from me to the television.
Was that last one just an exhaustion-induced hallucination? Perhaps. But the point remains.
I am not exactly sure how to interpret Fangraphs pitch values and I will not pretend to do so, but if you look at Seung Hwan Oh's slider in 2016 and in 2017 the drop off is very clear.