Troy Percival Player Card

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THT Live:Percival’s changeup
Published 5/8/2008 by Sal Baxamusa at The Hardball Times
... , Percival threw the following assortment of pitches last year: Fastball 76% Slider 7% Curveball 13% Changeup 4% This year, in a small sample size: Fastball 77% Slider 1% Curveball 11% Changeup 12% He's nearly abandoned the slider and is throwing a change much more frequently. Whether it's a new changeup or not, we'll have to take his word for. His player card at Josh Kalk's site shows that the change moves left-right like his fastball, but has a sharp downward bite. I don't know if his rarely seen pre-2008 changeup had the same action, though. Percival has pitched very ...

Percival Hittable
Published 5/9/2008 by halejon at The Mockingbird
... This doesn’t seem to be a rare thing this season. Although he usually gets more tail sideways on his pitches, there isn’t the same sort of violent drop on his splitter that most pitchers (see: Papelbon from a couple of days ago) have. ...