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Pirates' Jameson Taillon: Adds two-seamer to repertoire

Taillon credits a newly-found two-seam sinking fastball for adding to an already impressive pitching arsenal, DK Pittsburgh Sports reports.

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He's thrown his two-seamer 40 percent of the time over his first five big league starts. "A couple starts into Triple-A this year, I realized it could be a weapon," Taillon said. "And then, one of my last starts in Triple-A, they were saying, 'We'd like to see you maybe play with throwing it more.' I just threw it more, trusted it and ran with it. No looking back after that." Considering Taillon really just started throwing the pitch two months ago, his ceiling might be even higher than previously thought.

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