I have normal, not long fingers, and I would sort of have the ball jammed between my stubby digits, and throw without a lot of “wrist”. The ball sort of pops out of your hand, and though you’ve thrown it as hard as a fastball, it does run out of steam, but the spin is also sort of “dead”, not the tight spin of a fastball, and gives it a sort of bump, or loop in its trajectory, so it does more than just run out of gas… it sort of has a glitch in its path, then it dies. And if you want it to go in on right handers you apply a little more pressure on the index “right fork” finger.

I can see how having long fingers that can grip and control the ball more would actually screw this pitch up. Funny, when I first learned it, there were coaches out there saying that the splitter hurts your arm…. now I never hear that, and the catcher and I just called it a “change up #2” when he asked for it. I had a crap change up, so I needed this pitch.

never heard of it.