Marmol Getting Rid of Cut Fastball?

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Cubs believe Carlos Marmol better off ditching cut fastball - Chicago Sun-Times

Marmol admitted that the pitch, mastered by his hero, Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, was a problem for him last year. Some Cubs personnel didn’t even know he was toying with it.

But Sveum, the Brewers’ hitting coach last year, and Bosio, an advance scout for the Brewers for part of the year, saw something new and goofy in Marmol from the other side.

‘‘We were thinking, ‘What’s he doing? Is that a bad slider?’ ’’ Sveum said.

‘‘I threw it a little bit, and it didn’t work for me,’’ Marmol said. ‘‘Yeah, I got a little lost. My slider got a little lost because I worked on that.’’