{"id":8517,"date":"2010-07-09T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2010-07-08T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:38:29","slug":"web-pick-of-the-week-new-york-times-shows-how-mariano-rivera-dominates-hitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8517","title":{"rendered":"Web Pick of the Week: New York Times shows how Mariano Rivera dominates hitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6264\" title=\"Web-Pick\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Web-Pick.png\" alt=\"Web-Pick\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web pick is a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.nytimes.com\/video\/2010\/06\/30\/sports\/1247468158551\/how-mariano-rivera-dominates-hitters.html\" target=\"_blank\">video clip from the New York Times<\/a> that explains how the New York Yankees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Mariano Rivera has been able to dominate hitters throughout his career.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insightful and contains excellent graphics that give you a sense of what it must be like to face the greatest closer of all time (i.e. it makes you wonder how anyone ever gets a hit off him).<\/p>\n<p>Highlights for me are the concise explanation of the different ways he uses his cutter against left and right-handed hitters and the graphics that show the spin on the ball that hitters see when Rivera throws his fastball and cutter, compared to the spin of a slider.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billy-ball.com\/2010\/07\/do-you-prefer-90-degrees-or-15-degrees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy-Ball.com<\/a>, another excellent site that will be a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcweb pick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in its own right one week soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web pick is a video clip from the New York Times that explains how the New York Yankees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Mariano Rivera has been able to dominate hitters throughout his career<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230,553,98,86],"class_list":["post-8517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mariano-rivera","tag-mlb-2","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-web-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8519,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions\/8519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}