The Year of the Splitter?

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00:00 The Splitter
0:24 - Usage is up (again)
1:55 - Unique movement
3:53 - Big in Japan
4:54 - Low spin
6:22 - The grip
7:11 - My favorite splitter
9:26 - A prediction
9:55 - SeatGeek
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@PitchProfiler Ай бұрын

LOL so this is why my page views spiked 4x the last few days

@FoolishBailey Ай бұрын

What can I say, I’m an influencer

@ironsouthpaw2275 Ай бұрын

I’ll tell ya the year of the splitter was 2018, when my wife left me!

@michaelcadieux Ай бұрын

why, i hardly know er!!

@isiight. Ай бұрын

The day your life got better

@JoshuaEfron Ай бұрын

Ba dum psss

@mattcox3373 Ай бұрын

And then she was splitting it for everyone else

@user-xu5ln4xr4e Ай бұрын

Rodney Dangerfield lol

@bruffins Ай бұрын

In an era where spin rates are only getting higher, it seems fitting that one of the more effective pitches is one that is purposely meant to spin less. The outcome is obvious: the knuckleball shall return.

@thenightrider2121 Ай бұрын

We could use more knuckleballers. I miss the Tim Wakefields and RA Dickeys of the world.

@joelbarish9898 Ай бұрын

Matt Waldron did well against the Dodgers the other day!

@warlordofbritannia Ай бұрын

Knuckleballers also have way lower risk of arm injury

@warlordofbritannia Ай бұрын

@@thenightrider2121 Rip Wake

@BKF0 Ай бұрын

The final form of baseball will be a game where every pitcher has had their UCL removed entirely and exclusively throws knuckleballs

@brianaiitken Ай бұрын

The channel should be renamed Handsome Bailey to be much more accurate.

@marshallbenton4365 Ай бұрын

Quality upload on the main channel

@Katsos44 Ай бұрын

The Mariners upload splitters into their starters heads like it’s the matrix I swear

@kevincolbert4523 Ай бұрын

I'm glad you covered the splitter's popularity in Japan and Korea because my biggest takeaway from watching the WBC was that it seemed like every pitcher on the Japanese national team had an absolutely filthy splitter.

@w3t_willy Ай бұрын

I'm a simple man. I see a main channel upload, and I click

@sendAJtospace Ай бұрын

If Kevin Gausman’s isn’t called Da Spwitter I will be very disappointed I have been disappointed

@Mars-kf3zi Ай бұрын

My boy Kirky catching strays for the perfect fig. 1a of 'befuddled'

@good_beans Ай бұрын

Monkey's Paw, the last pitch of 2024 will be a splitter but it will be hit for a walk off.

@SadMarinersFan Ай бұрын

Good video main channel. Glad to see this content continue to flow through the season.

@sergioduenas5249 Ай бұрын

Another day, another fantastic main channel video.

@joshuapatrick682 Ай бұрын

It’s pitching, pitche types will come into vogue until the hitters adjust, at which point they’ll fade out again for a little while and become relevant a few years later.

@brycehawes38 Ай бұрын

Thank you for shouting out Fernando cruz. He had control issues last year but late in the season he dialed it in and was striking out everybody. And he’s even better now

@doublemcsticky5808 Ай бұрын

I feel like Felix Bautistas splitter is insane. It may not have the same movement as other splitters but with his arm slot and matched up with his 4seam is just different than any other splitter

@jacobwilhide1189 Ай бұрын

I love the bold prediction of final pitch WS being a splitter

@ryanbrown3283 Ай бұрын

Love the main channel Content Bailey

@Cameron9788 Ай бұрын

Brillant video Mr Foolish!. Absolutely love these technical breakdowns like this. Makes me love the game even more.

@DB-bf3ys Ай бұрын

First for a main channel video? It's my lucky day!

@dsbakery Ай бұрын

aw yeah main channel back in action baby

@Thedownboysfan Ай бұрын

Jack Morris, Roger Clemens, John Smoltz, David Cone and Randy Johnson all used it. That’s like 15,000 Ks. So I’ve always wondered why it died. I’m glad to see it come back.

@somerandomguy5977 Ай бұрын

Splitters with less than 1000rpm and with a large mph differential are most likely forkballs. Aroldis Chapman throws one, George Kirby throws one, there are several that still throw true forks, they're just usually called splitters.

@SadMarinersFan Ай бұрын

probably will get its own distinction like how Sweeper got separated from sliders last year.

@somerandomguy5977 Ай бұрын

Nah, it's closer to knuckle curve vs. curveball than anything else and sweeper isn't even a real pitch. Usually it's a slider, sometimes a curveball, either or those pitches weren't registered as "sweepers" until last year. Plus the concept is stupid. Sliders have slide implying sideways movement. If they wanted to differentiate sliders they could've added gyroball which is already used in japan for gyrospin sliders or maybe a name for sliders that go down. Sliders already slide, implying sideways movement so saying "sweeper" implying sweeping action is dumb especially since not all pitches called the same thing move the same so some sliders are more frisby, some more vertical but to use "sweeper" as a whole "new" pitch. It's ridiculous. Slurve is already a pitch name for a slider with more vertical drop anyways and it's registered by statcast but like forkball it's only listed as "slurve" if you tell them it's a slurve. Pitches have to do with pitch grips not movement anyways, plus sweeper just doesn't sound good.

@L34VITT Ай бұрын

When I first got into baseball about 10 years ago, I noticed I loved splitters, maybe because they were so rare, but also because they had such a unique motion. So glad you had a video covering this and breaking down the details of this great pitch!

@TheTEN24 Ай бұрын

Definitely a huge rise in splitters currently across mlb Bailey loved the breakdown

@Crynn Ай бұрын

splitter was always one of my favorite pitches, glad to see the return

@Kriptinite18 Ай бұрын

It always makes my day when you make a video on your main channel

@SenorTortas Ай бұрын

Incredible breakdown Bailey!

@robertgordon7983 Ай бұрын

One thing that I think get overlooked so much is the Visual spin from the hitters prospective. I throw a 4 seam fastball with 2100-2200rpm that typically get 18-20 inches of Ivb that grades out as pretty good pitch in isolation and a change up that spins about 1500 with 3-8 drop in the opposite direction that grades out pretty mediocre. But my change up is by far my biggest swing and miss pitch because I hold it with a 4 seam grip which makes it visually indistinguishable from a fastball and batters swing right over it

@lapotencia25 Ай бұрын

Kodai Senga's ghost forkball essentially operates like a slightly slower splitter with even more downward break which makes the pitch so effective. He's out now but when he comes back I'd like to see a video on the ghost fork and forkballs in general

@gunnardsippert4094 Ай бұрын

Outstanding video

@Josh_JustJoshin Ай бұрын

SeatGeek isn't paying you enough, you Billy Mays'd us at the end

@cnking27 Ай бұрын

A ball moving through the air creates lift. Normally, whichever way the ball is spinning on some axis is the direction the lift force is being "redistributed" to...for a fastball, it's spinning backward, which sends the lift force to the front of the ball and creates "rise." A slider spins in the direction of the pitcher's hand, so the force moves that way and the ball moves glove side. Curve is opposite the fastball. The splitter is thrown with the intent of spinning very little, so the lift force isn't redistributed...it presses up against the back of the ball, creating nosedive. But because it isn't thrown with the arm motion of a curve, it can be thrown harder, like a fastball. The knuckleball does the same thing but has the added bonus of having so little spin that the stitches can serve as rudders, moving the ball left and right.

@DRay210 Ай бұрын

Nothing foolish about Bailey. Great Vid man really enjoy your stuff !

@VegeMaticPragtarian Ай бұрын

I saw year of the splitter, and thought Cruz had to be mentioned. So happy I was right; he’s a great story too

@EpicSuccessESG Ай бұрын

I just know fernando cruz will be mentioned

@robertcrist6059 Ай бұрын

This is crazy to me that you are talking about Kremer, and I'm watching this video today (4/20/24) instead of when it dropped, but all of this connected to the fact I live in KC MO and was at the game last night and Kremer was the starter for the O's and had a perfect game going into the 4th, until with 2 outs Vinnie popped a HR, whoops.

@cubsfanman-nx6pg Ай бұрын

Thanks for uploading on your main channel again

@moyst.j Ай бұрын

Thank you Silly Irish Cream. Very cool Silly Irish Cream.

@travisfletcher6342 Ай бұрын

This comment deserves more likes

@logan4015 Ай бұрын

Fernando Cruz getting some love finally

@Saucy1005 Ай бұрын

i love this video and i love the splitter 🔥

@andrewhawkins6754 Ай бұрын

With all the arm injuries, we need more knuckleballers. Sometimes it's completely unhittable... other times it's BP!

@andrewboyce7268 Ай бұрын

So I'm gonna need Bailey to replace one of the talking heads at MLB Network.

@baileysmith4744 Ай бұрын

i predict the final pitch of the 2024 season, Game 6 of the World Series between the Braves and Orioles will be a Craig Kimbrel fastball at the top of the zone at 94mph, striking out Michael Harris swinging in the top of the 9th

@jimmyk4445 Ай бұрын

Main channel time!

@kevhead1525 Ай бұрын

Batters facing Bruce Sutter: "The hell..?

@connorsullivan9274 Ай бұрын

Just won my first mlb the show World Series with my reds on a Fernando Cruz splitter! Then immediately saw this video haha

@drewp17 Ай бұрын

Alejandro Kirk out here catching strays on a video about the Splitter

@KyleJ711 Ай бұрын

I wish I could let gang know I fw this Last pitch of the year Logan Gilbert splitter CG World Series shut out 😤

@joshuastar77 Ай бұрын

9:54, Hopefully, a splitter from Kirby Yates.

@tuckerprice9663 Ай бұрын

Shoutout JJ Putz’s splitter. The only thing that rocked harder in 2007 was Putz’s walkout music (AC/DC’s Thunderstruck).

@somerandomguy5977 Ай бұрын

Zach Wheeler has had a splitter. He might me using it more this season but it's been years that it's been in his back pocket.

@ivanmac89 Ай бұрын

I started watching baseball around 2010 and I don't recall anyone throwing it in the years after that.

@peacebone8112 Ай бұрын

If you were shown a pitch mix with velos movements arm slots and placements, how accurately would you be able to guess how good of a pitcher they were? Because I feel like when I see stuff like glasnow or strider, I wonder why their outcomes seem so bad relative to the perceived quality of their pitches.

@kleshreen Ай бұрын

Given that the splitter by Gilbert only spun 4.5 times, are we going to be in a spot where we see 80+mph knuckleballs at some point? The splitter grip seems to be something that can lead to it.

@SO-if3yn Ай бұрын

“Mr. Baseball” showed me the power of the great equalizer. It beat the stash off Tom Selleck to start, he came around.

@sabiebright4554 Ай бұрын

KZfaq didnt notify me of this, even though i have the bell rung, this saddens me as yesterday wouldve been awesome with this video n

@SeattleSporting Ай бұрын

Bryce Miller added the Splitter in the offseason and it's immediately working great in tandem with the elite spin on his 4-seam

@AllMyFri3ndsAr3D3ad Ай бұрын

What's the difference between a splitter and a forkball like Senga throws? Or are those just two names for the same thing?

@bryana9139 Ай бұрын

Life is okay if there foolish video uploaded

@joeryan82 Ай бұрын

Splitter saves your arm. Great pitch.

@djmcn17 Ай бұрын

Wheeler actually originally added the splitter during his insane second half in 2018. Not sure why he dropped it after that since it seemed really effective.

@nickisvery303 Ай бұрын

As a SplitHead myself (thats what us true Splitter fans call ourselves) this rise in Splitter usage brings me great joy, im so glad that this unique and incredible pitch is finally getting the recognition it deserves

@manny44224L Ай бұрын

I knew this video was coming since opening day 😂

@shotbycamron Ай бұрын

Bruh I literally said this like 2 months ago!! Its HIM this year!!

@alexw0310 Ай бұрын

When do I get to see MLB pitchers throwing the Split Ball from Backyard Baseball?

@codyscott7608 Ай бұрын

Being in this video is the most significant contribution dean kremer has given to the orioles in awhile

@dominicpancella3012 Ай бұрын

Splitter? I hardly know 'er! Also, looking forward to the year of the eephus

@benjihuynh2970 Ай бұрын

Splitters are a super nasty pitch for viewers. You get some of the coolest swing and misses on those

@warlordofbritannia Ай бұрын

They’ve got a lovely confluence of velocity and movement

@lordxelizor Ай бұрын

Haven’t seen the video yet but if Ezequiel Tovar isn’t mentioned, I’m gonna riot

@dplol_ Ай бұрын

What's the difference between Senga's forkball and a splitter?

@Weaponator18 Ай бұрын

Short answer: how far it drops and number of times it spins. Hope that helps!

@JNSchneider Ай бұрын

Plot twist: the last pitch of the 2024 season will be a splitter - that is hit out of the park for a walk-off home run 😄

@mattbalfe2983 Ай бұрын

I picked up the splitter my junior year of high school, it's honestly not particularly hard to learn.

@jimc.goodfellas226 Ай бұрын

Foolish stuff my friend

@randy2152 Ай бұрын

1 inch is huge!!!!!

@luguentzdort5 Ай бұрын

Bailey confirmed Jeff Hoffman closing out the World Series

@GeekoTreecko Ай бұрын

Splitter, why i reckon i hardly knew her!

@HeySalina Ай бұрын

Nobody's talkin' about Jeremy Jeffress's devastating split change from like.. 2018-ish 😭

@jpwiscobaseballcards1192 Ай бұрын

It will be interesting to see if Ohtani brings his splitter back next season given this trend. It used to be his endgame pitch but he barely threw it last year.

@TheHankinswill Ай бұрын

Never, ever let someone tell you that 1.5-2” doesn’t matter

@andrewduncan3214 Ай бұрын

just started video, hoping for yuki matsui talk

@warlordofbritannia Ай бұрын

Presumably the splitter is also less wear and tear than the constant breaking stuff.

@lympharia8257 Ай бұрын

man that splitter has less revolutions per minute than france

@patuphues125 Ай бұрын

If Mark Leiter jr. isn’t mentioned in this video I will riot

@PrimarySweeper13 Ай бұрын

I already throw a splitter. It’s alright for now, but I’m getting some bite to it

@daanbrinks2084 Ай бұрын

Extrapolating this data, in a couple years there will be more splitters thrown than pitches thrown

@greengriffin7758 Ай бұрын

Can't wait till Jeff Hoffman strikes out Anthony Santander on a splitter in Game 6 so I can come back to this video

@uncle-ted Ай бұрын

Keaton winn all day!

@MrFallingcats Ай бұрын

Many pitchers throw splitters but only one throws Da Spwitta

@Extinguisher10 Ай бұрын

Just ask the ladies if an extra inch or two of movement will make a difference!

@kevhead1525 Ай бұрын

Split finger fastball is gripped with the fingers split. Ohhhh. Thought you crossed your fingers. 😉🤪

@donelec5955 Ай бұрын

Not even a mention of Kodai Senga smh

@jhow0089 Ай бұрын

It's not RPMs, but rather RsPM...let's start a revolution

@ravenclawnatsfan Ай бұрын

Foolish Bailey video featuring Dean Kremer? Love it!

@utopia_mycon Ай бұрын

🚨🚨🚨 dean kremer mentioned 🚨🚨🚨

@Brandon-uq1gr Ай бұрын

Fernando Cruz mentioned. I win

@robertott9925 Ай бұрын

Jack Morris

@tuckerprice9663 Ай бұрын

Most devastating splitter of all time: Wii Sports

@bert1013 Ай бұрын

splitter!? i hardly even know her!

@alexihuse4914 Ай бұрын

Felix Bautista World Series winning splitter K confirmed