Ryu Hyun-jin's 2019 key words to describe the health, marriage and two-season fastball is essential. Two-sim fastballs, which were hardly seen until two years ago, surged to the level of the main weapon. For the class cutters that Ryu learned last year, it would have been a natural match that had the same early trajectory-speed and the opposite mid-trajectory. It would have enhanced each other's effects.

And in the second half, Ryu is throwing much more spirit.
The four-seam fastball was cut in half compared to the first half, and the fighting spirit nearly doubled. In the second half, only two pitchers had a bigger pitch than Ryu Hyun-jin.

Fighting is an effective ball for ground ball induction. So Ryu induced 55.7% of all bats in the second half to landball. That's up from 50.7 percent in the first half, already at a peak in life. It is the fourth-highest groundball percentage among pitchers in the second half. Ryu Hyun-jin is the best groundball pitcher in the second half of the big leagues. He has a similar groundball percentage to Tim Hudson, Jake Westbrook and other 'lander landers'.
The side effects of the two-season is also well known. Not suitable for inducing swing swings. Among the pitches of Ryu, Hyunjin is the lowest vacant swing. So pitching pitchers usually have a low strikeout rate. The most important reason for Hyun's strikeout rate in 2H is likely to be increased fighting.

In addition, a poorly-imposed two-season can lead to a long blow when caught in the upper wing. One of the reasons the upperwing is so popular in the big leagues is that pitchers have thrown a defensive fastball, such as a two-seater-cutter, to guide the groundball for a while. The batters responded by 'lifting up' the falling fastball. The pitchers then put on a four-comb combo that was difficult for the upperwing to cope with. Too Sim became an out-of-fashion ball. It mimics the success story of Houston, who brought back pitching pitchers such as Garrett Cole and Ryan Presley and turned them into four-season pitchers. The analysis that 'the era of courage is over' continues.
To be a little exaggerated, Ryu Hyun-jin became the league's best pitcher with a tactic that was branded as a `` failed recipe '' in the 2019 Major Leagues. Ryu Hyun-jin is rebelling against the latest trend in the big leagues, such as the light-bulb-three strikes-home run. In the second half the intensity of the rebellion increased. If a rebel is not a pitcher who leads the fashion of the time, it will be a historical or unreal event. It's already unbelievably unrealistic so far.

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