The screwball. In any conversation about Tampa Bay Rays pitching prospect Brent Honeywell, you have to talk about his screwball, the pitch he throws that nobody else does anymore. Buster Posey claims that it is impossible to throw. However, when Honeywell was kind enough to talk with me on the phone for a few minutes, he was a little perplexed about why screwball pitchers were so scarce in modern baseball. To him, “It is just another pitch.”
“I have my curveball and then I have my screwball.