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schilling had something on his blog about papelbon, said his pitch appeared to be on a lower plane or something, iirc.

not only that, his splitter is [censored] nasty. he threw one to jeter (i think?), clocked at 94

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yeah he threw that and i was like "holy [censored] i didn't know paps had a two seamer. holy [censored] it was 94 and broke ten inches. wow, was that a splitter?"

his fastball is not just mid to high nineties, it's got a lot of life on it, and his splitter has developed into one of the nastiest in the game. which is ridiculous when you consider that schilling taught it to him prior to the 06 season.