| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - A good reason for this is that a lot of these extra whiffs are coming from right-handed batters who are facing the splitter really for the first time. (As previously stated, right-handed batters previously only saw fastballs and sliders from Papelbon.) This pitch also has a good groundball rate on balls that are put into play, especially as compared to the rate on his fastball.
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