Aaron Heilman's New Splitter

Lou said something after Aaron Heilman's May 2 outing about a new pitch. A splitter to replace his change-up. Indeed, he's got a new pitch that is a bit faster and with different spin. Instead of drop and tail that's close to the sinker's movement, it has more drop and, for lack of a better word, cut.

Pictures are worth more words, and better words, than I can provide. Blue "CH" is the old change-up, Dark Red "F2" is his sinking fastball, Black "SL" the slider and the all new Red "FS" split-fingered fastball.





I'll follow-up on the results as a little more time passes on.

data includes home games from 2009; Heilman also threw the splitter in Houston on the 7th