Sure, I'm sitting next to him as I type this, but Jeff Passan of Yahoo has done the best job explaining the gyroball that I've seen. His article is a great piece of baseball detective work and includes video of both Daisuke Matsuzaka and Joey Niezer.

Finding out that Matsuzaka doesn't throw the gyro is a bit disheartening, but I still think he'd succeed. Maybe he and I could get together and give him the pitch he wants.

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