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Here's a list of the pitches that have been thrown over the years.
Who is the past or present Met pitcher you most associate with those pitches (if any)?
Fastball
Curve ball
Slider
Sinker (or two seam fast ball)
Split finger fast ball (or fork ball)
Screw ball (not personality, type of pitch, but in some cases, could be the same person)
Change up
Knuckleball
Spitball (yeah, I know)

Please feel free to add any I might have missed.

Later


Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
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Free associating?

FB-- Gooden
Curve-- Gooden
Slider-- Wendell
Sinker-- McDowell
Split-finger-- Cone
Screwball-- Takahashi
Change-- Johan
Knuckler-- Springer?


Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket
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Just on a top-of-mind basis:

Fastball Seaver
Curve ball Gooden
Slider Wendell
Sinker (or two seam fast ball) Sisk
Split finger fast ball (or fork ball) Pelfrey
Screw ball (not personality, type of pitch, but in some cases, could be the same person) McGraw
Change up Santana
Knuckleball ?? Tom Sturdivant
Spitball (yeah, I know) ??


Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
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I know that it's an opinion thing, but I totally feel like I gave the wrong answer on "Screwball."

(I'm just madly crushing on Tak2.)


Guest Edgy DC
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Fastball Benitez
Curveball Gooden
Slider Wendell
Sinker Bradford
Split-finger fastball Cone
Screwball McGraw
Changeup Martinez
Knuckleball Springer


Guest Rockin' Doc
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Just going with the first name that pops into my head.

Fastball Nolan Ryan
Curve ball Doc Gooden
Slider Turk Wendell
Sinker (or two seam fast ball) Doug Sisk
Split finger fast ball (or fork ball) Roger Craig
Screw ball (not personality, type of pitch, but in some cases, could be the same person) Tug McGraw
Change up Tom Glavine*
Knuckleball I'm pulling a blank on this one
Spitball (yeah, I know) No clue - Mike Scott supposedly mastered the spitter after leaving the Mets.

*Okay, this is embarrassing. After reading other answers, I can't believe that I didn't think of Johan Santana for change up. The mind is a tricky thing sometimes.


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FB-- Seaver
Curve-- Tate
Slider-- Koosman
Sinker-- McDowell
Split-finger-- Cone
Screwball-- McGraw
Change-- Viola
Knuckler--Bob Moorhead


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Fastball - Gooden
Curve ball - Gooden.
Slider - Turk. Did he throw anything else?
Sinker - John Hudek. Not really, Mike Pelfrey.
Split finger fast ball - Ron Darling
Screw ball - John Franco (is that what he threw??)
Change up - Pedro
Knuckleball - Springer was the guy, I guess. Any others?
Spitball (yeah, I know) - I got nuttin

What about a cutter? Leiter's the first dude that pops into my mushy brain.

Rick Reed had a killer 2-seamer, too. That ball that would start on the outside to righties and somehow tail back on the black for a strike. Good.

What did Paul Wilson throw?


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Fastball -- Gooden
Curve ball -- Koosman
Slider -- Seaver

Split finger fast ball (or fork ball) - Cone
Screw ball (not personality, type of pitch, but in some cases, could be the same person) -- McGraw
Change up -- Santana/Glavine


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Here's my list:
Fastball - Nolan Ryan -"Von Ryan's Express"
Curve ball - Doc
Slider - David Cone - his "Laredo" pitch to righty batters was a sidearm slider
Sinker (or two seam fast ball) - Pelfrey
Split finger fast ball (or fork ball) - Roger Craig - he taught it to pitchers on other teams after he left the Mets - fucker
Screw ball (not personality, type of pitch, but in some cases, could be the same person) _Tug fit both descriptions
Change up - Santana
Knuckleball - Tom Sturdivant
Spitball (yeah, I know) - Well, McDowell was accused of having a tool belt to doctor the ball. So I'd guess he had something liquid in it.
Another one:
Gopher ball - Mark "Boom Boom" Bomback didn't get that nickname by accident.

Other pitches I recall, but don't remember any Mets tossing them:

Bat Shard Ball- Roger Clemens
The "Cut the ball with your wedding ring" ball - Whitey Ford

Later


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