{"id":42870,"date":"2024-02-26T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42870"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:10:04","slug":"best-knuckleball-in-fastpitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42870","title":{"rendered":"Best Knuckleball in Fastpitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong>  We&#8217;ve updated this post to add another nominee for &#8220;Best Knuckleball in Fastpitch&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Blair Setford&nbsp;says:  &#8220;Sean Cleary&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Feel free to add your comments below, or on Twitter (X).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editor&#8217;s nominees:  Sabate and Terkelson of the AWP Lumberjacks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Who has the best knuckleball in fastpitch?  I&#8217;ll start, and nominate two members of the AWP Lumberjacks, <strong>Sisko Sabate<\/strong> and <strong>Valdy Terkelson<\/strong>.  Though both spend more time as position players, and good ones at that, both are capable pitchers with great knuckleballs.   I got an up-close-and-personal look from behind home plate at the recent USA Softball Winter Classic in Fort Myers, Florida, and both tossed knucklers with lots of movement.  They weren&#8217;t throwing the knuckler as waste pitches, but to record outs, and sometimes strikeouts.     <strong>Who else has mastered the dark art? <\/strong> Feel free to add your nominee for the best knuckleball in fastpitch in the comments below, or on twitter (X).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steven Wright&#39;s Insane Knuckleball movement. ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WxUI6OHSnO\">pic.twitter.com\/WxUI6OHSnO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchingNinja\/status\/1761059539472769396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: We&#8217;ve updated this post to add another nominee for &#8220;Best Knuckleball in Fastpitch&#8221;&#8221; Blair Setford&nbsp;says: &#8220;Sean Cleary&#8221; Feel free to add your comments below, or on Twitter (X). Editor&#8217;s nominees: Sabate and Terkelson of the AWP Lumberjacks Who has the best knuckleball in fastpitch? I&#8217;ll start, and nominate two members of the AWP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured","7":"category-general","8":"category-players","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42991,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42870\/revisions\/42991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}