Fu-Te Ni Revisited

So, Harry Pavlidis profiled the two new arms in the bigs this week over at Beyond the Boxscore. Fu-Te Ni was one of those two. Head on over there for the graphs and whatnot. He says this:

First up, Ni's release points. The reason some folks have noted a different release point for Ni's change, relative to the fastball/slider, is actually set-up by uneven usage of the pitch against left- and right-handed hitters, and combined with his shifting towards the first base sid of the rubber against lefties.

I did not know that, and it makes sense as to why those graphs were so far off in terms of the release points. So, that explains that.

Harry seems really to like the start that Ni's gotten off to, as well. I agree, he's been good in his first few innings.