Phillies reliever Sam Coonrod, who missed the first four months of the season with a torn rotator cuff, has added a cutter to his arsenal. The early returns have been promising.
placed the reliever on the 10-day injured list with a shoulder strain on April 7, and he was transferred to the 60-day injured list a week later. An MRI revealed he had a torn rotator cuff. Following a nine-game rehab assignment, Coonrod pitched in first big-league game of the season on Aug. 19. A four-month delay to his season was not his idea of a good time.
“It’s a cutter,” Coonrod said. “The way I release the ball makes it come out like a cutter, even though it reads slider. It has just a little bit of depth, but not too much depth. It has a little bit of cut to it. Just a different look than the fastball.” Translating the pitch from flat ground to the mound wasn’t always a smooth transition. Coonrod said sometimes he’d get a good feel for the pitch on flat ground, only to lose that feel for it on a mound. But over time, the pitch started to come — and, luckily for Coonrod, time was not in short supply.
Since his return on Aug. 19, Coonrod has yet to allow an earned run in five innings, with two walks and six strikeouts. He’s lighting up the radar gun — in his outing against the Pirates on Sunday, he was up to 98.9 mph — but his cutter has proved to be quite deceptive and pairs well with his fastball to help keep hitters off-balance.
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