In reality pitchers are thinking more than ever (albeit with the help of 20 analysts), and we're in the age of the breaking ball as much as velocity. They are doing stuff that we as fans really have no clue about, as far as the cameras and ball trackers and the tiny mechanical adjustments There is a big article in the new SI, I'll try to find it online. One other thing it talks about is that most analytics teams don't care about lefty/righty bullpen match-ups anymore, and certainly not about individual histories (which were always small sample). They match pitching deliveries and best pitches with the type of hitters/swings. And then we sit there in our living room complaining that the manager had pitcher X through to hitter Y when we're just looking at Fangraphs.
