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Boston Red Sox fans went crazy for Japanese player Daisuke Matsuzaka (AKA Dice-K). The Red Sox payed an astonishing $103 million dollars to get Dice-K on the team. He may introduce a mythical new pitch: the Gyroball. This article gives the 411 on Dice-K and the Gyroball and is written with keyword optimization in mind.

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What´s the Gyroball and Does Dice-K Have It?

Daisuke Matsuzaka draws crowds. He draws sellout crowds at nearly every baseball game he plays. Media from around the world, particularly his native country Japan, flock to see him play. His reputation as a pitcher is becoming legendary, and he´s only 26. Everywhere he goes, there seems to be one word that follows him: gyroball.

In 2006 the Boston Red Sox bid $51.11 million for the right to negotiate with Daisuke Matsuzaka. Yes, $51.11 million just for the right to negotiate with him. He later signed on with the team for an additional $52 million, six-year contract. The new Boston Red Sox player is now better known by his nickname, Dice-K.

So what´s Dice-K got that the Red Sox want so badly? For starters, he spent eight years with Japan´s Seibu Lions, earned Japan´s equivalent of the Cy Young Award, led Pacific League victories, and was MVP of the World Baseball Classic last year. Dice-K has been a star player since back in his days at Yokohama High where he pitched a no-hitter game in the national championship in 1998. There´s one more important thing about Dice-K: he claims to know how to throw the mythical gyroball.

The gyroball is potentially the first new pitch to hit the major league scene since the split-finger fastball was first thrown by Bruce Sutter in 1976.

Ryutaro Himeno, described as both a physicist and a computer scientist, invented the gyroball when he created simulations of spinning baseballs using a computer program. The gyroball is theoretically a new pitch that is thrown to spin clockwise or counterclockwise like a football.

Pitches rely on gravity, air resistance, and lift to spin and speed through the air toward hitters. Most pitches tweak some element of lift and spin, but the gyroball is actually thrown like a football, creating a unique gyroball spin and motion. Skeptics believe the gyroball doesn´t exist, or is just a variation on a screwball or a backdoor slider. Some say even if the gyroball exists in theory, it can´t really be mastered. Some are calling the gyroball the Loch Ness Monster of baseball.

In theory the gyroball would

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