We’ve shared pitches with you both extremely slow and then extremely fast with crazy movement.
Today, we bring you the latter: Los Angeles Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen, who continues to be dominant after years of success on the mound saving games for the franchise.
This is a cutter that goes 95 MPH, but what’s wild about it is how far it darts off the plate to the righty Seattle Mariners hitter. Anybody would have trouble figuring out what to do with this pitch.
And it was so good that fellow reliever, the New York Mets’ Trevor May, was in awe of it:
Kenley Jansen, Ridiculous 95mph Cutter. 😳 pic.twitter.com/7a60qSKpnr
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 20, 2021
What in the Hocus Pocus, talking cat, witchcraft hell was that? https://t.co/zVFoHVW1kT
— Trevor “IamTrevorMay” May (@IamTrevorMay) April 21, 2021
Whew. What a pitch. And as Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) pointed out, it’s not the first time we’ve seen a pitch like this from Jansen with that much movement:
Kenley Jansen, Ridiculous 95mph Cutter (with tail) pic.twitter.com/Uf7WJgA81a
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 21, 2021
Kenley Jansen, Alien Cutter release (slow) 👽🛸✂️ pic.twitter.com/WEIzNWw0vs
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 21, 2021
I think people forget how great peak Jansen was.https://t.co/m1yxTIY6QF
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 20, 2021
