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Why Tyler Glasnow’s four-seam fastball acts like a cutter

Does Tyler Glasnow throw a traditional four-seam fastball or a cutter?

The answer is both simple and not, as Brian Menendez investigated earlier this month.

Glasnow’s grip is decidedly a traditional four-seam, his large hands are on all four seams in any photo or broadcast slo-mo, but put in action and you get viral strikeouts with a high-90’s occasionally cutting fastball:

Uh oh.... If Glasnow isn’t doing this on purpose , he needs to learn how to do this on purpose. If he already knows how to do this on purpose, he might win the Cy Young award.