Why Tarik Skubal uses his changeup to left-handed hitters

Sitting in front of his locker at Yankee Stadium, Tarik Skubal wants to run a search on Baseball Savant.

One of the best pitchers in baseball, at least in this way, is just like us.

On the mound, Skubal does a lot of things that nobody else does. He has thrown the five fastest pitches by a left-handed starting pitcher in the pitch-tracking era, which dates back to 2008. He is the first…