Is Smardzja pitching himself out of the playoffs?

By Backtobanks,
September 18, 2008 in Chicago Cubs Talk

https://northsidebaseball.com/forums/topic/33022-is-smardzja-pitching-himself-out-of-the-playoffs/

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Tomarken

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Posted September 20, 2008

He's struggling to throw strikes, mostly. His pitches have great movement, he just needs to be able to command it better.

Does he have the same movement on his fastball as he did when he was first called up? Looking at these charts his fastball had about 9-11" of movement a couple months ago. I don't know how accurate the mlb gameday pitch fx is, but on average he appeared to be getting about 5-6" of movement on the fastball yesterday. I didn't see any of Samardzija's "implosion" on tv, did anybody notice a difference on the movement of his fastball?