In-depth look at three Blake Snell pitch grips

This is going to be a fourseam fast

ball. You can see his fingers uh along

the four seams, and he's just going to

rip that, pull it backwards, get that

spin, and hit his spot. This is his

change up. Now, you can see it's the the

power finger, the pointer finger is off.

It's the other two fingers. And that

middle finger is really what pulls it.

And he doesn't have it across the seams.

He's got it on the uh railroad of the

horseshoe, if that makes sense. And uh

pulls it with his middle finger there to

get that last second spin. And the power

fingers are off. So he's not going to be

able to get as much spin, get as much VO

on it. And it just falls off and away.

That's beautiful. And then we have the

curveball where he's going to wrap it

around. The thumb is behind it and he's

going to pull down on the pointer finger

to get top spin.

And that is going to turn over and over

and over and on its way falls off. I

love looking at this stuff. So here's

the three put together in slow-mo.

And you can see all the different ways

he's holding it. Power fingers on, power

fingers off, behind the ball, on the

side of the ball. Three different things

causing three different speeds and three

different movements with the same

delivery. Pitching's fun.