Nearly a year later, acquiring Adam Cimber looks like a great under-the-radar move, but today’s version is drastically different from who he was leading up to his arrival. DownToBlack examines how he became a valued reliever with the Blue Jays.
Before joining the Jays, Cimber’s starting position on the mound had been, nearly exclusively, on the first-base side of the rubber. But since joining Pete Walker’s staff, Cimber has moved to the third-base side, changing his average release point by about a foot. The move made Cimber an extreme outlier, one of only six pitchers in Major League Baseball whose release point is more than four feet away from the middle of the rubber.
Following a trade to Miami, early in the 2021 season, Cimber was facing Evan Longoria, a right-handed hitting slugger with over 300 career home runs. He started with a sinker and three sliders and stood on the mound with a 1-2 count. It’s a change that goes against years of conventional baseball wisdom, and the genesis of the move was a text from a former Jays reliever and fellow side-armer.
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