This illustrates why hitting a major league pitcher is HARD!!

...and why a lot of hitters who were great at almost every other level of baseball are either selling insurance or considering other various and sundry future career options.

Same release point, same initial visual feedback to the hitter as to pitch type and future destination and then at about a third of the way to the batter and almost past the point of no return, divergence into five different pitches, with five different destinations that the hitter has to cover. That's Pujols hitting and when he puts the heel down and starts his swing, it is really debatable whether or not he has enough visual information to attack this arsenal or if he's taking an educated guess. That's the quandry that a guy with this mix puts a hitter in.

This is an array of Darvish's 2-seam FB, 4-seam FB, cutter and CB. He carries potential no-hit stuff every time out.