Interesting piece about Johnny Cueto's struggles with Royals

Fangraphs

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Part of his trouble, Cueto explained to the team, was he tries to throw exactly toward the catcher’s glove. Perez often set the target high in the zone, intending to lower his mitt with the pitch. But the optics challenged Cueto, which may have led to him spinning a series of cutters and change-ups at the waist of opposing hitters in recent weeks.

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You can see the adjustment from two different games. This is fascinating to me, mates. One time my peewee football team had this kid Deoin who was dumber than bricks. He didn't know the difference between left and right but DAMN was he fast and big. So the coach finally put an orange shoelace on his left cleat and a blue shoelace on his right cleat and then we'd call plays "orange" or "blue" so old Deoin would know which way to tote the rock. Before the snap you could see him looking down repeatedly at his different shoelaces and literally see the wheels churning inside his puny brain as he figured out which way he was about to run. And damn if that dumbass didn't lead us to the rec league title