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Marlins’ Pete Fairbanks did not stutter about brutality of getting ‘dry humped’
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What sounds like a sexual innuendo is actually just a common term in the world of baseball, specifically relating to MLB relief pitchers. Pete Fairbanks went into detail on what a "dry hump" is in baseball terms during his interview with Jeff Passan.
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"The dry hump is when, as a reliever, they call down and say, 'Hey'," Fairbanks started to explain. "In most cases its tight or ahead, and so-and-so is in the game. You start warming up, and obviously, there's degrees of it. The worst dry humps are the ones to which you then have to fire it off and be as warm as you would be to go in a game, but with no guarantee that you will go in the game. And then if your team does not score the run, you sit back down, and you have been dry humped."
The Miami Marlins reliever perfectly explained one of the hardest parts about the life of a bullpen player. Starters know exactly which games they are going to play in, and they often have an expected pitch count. Relievers, on the other hand, may or may not enter any given game, yet they need to be prepared for whenever they are called upon.
Fairbanks has long been viewed as one of the better relievers in baseball, but he has struggled in his first season with the Marlins. The former Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays player has a 10.00 ERA through nine innings pitched. Perhaps Dry humps are one explanation for his early struggles. Regardless, Miami expects big things from their closer from here on out.
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