iayork wrote a piece this morning on the .com about Joe Kelly:
Should we get our hopes up, or are we going to get disappointed again?There’s evidence, then, that Kelly had success when he increased the number of his secondary pitches, slowed his fastballs slightly, and varied the speed of his pitches. Is this chance, or is there any reason to believe he may have done this deliberately?
In fact, all three of these changes were specifically targeted by Kelly’s pitching coaches. One of the first things Carl Willis noted about Kelly was that he could benefit from slowing his fastballs down a little. Willis also changed Kelly’s pitch selection, according to Peter Gammons. And Red Sox pitching consultant Pedro Martinez gave Kelly a pitching lesson that emphasized changing speeds on his pitches.