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Let's watch right-hander Yu Darvish throw some curveballs ... with his left hand

By Chris Landers

Since coming to the Major Leagues back in 2012, Yu Darvish has shown the ability to make a baseball do just about anything he wants. There are breaking balls that flutter, breaking balls that dance, even breaking balls that made us question the very fabric of our reality:

There was just one problem -- all of that came as a right-handed pitcher. And so, his mastery of ordinary pitching complete, Darvish has moved on to his other hand. Unsurprisingly, he's already pretty good:

According to the caption, the video above was taken three years ago during a bullpen session at Fenway, and Darvish decided to bestow it upon us as a belated holiday gift. We, for one, welcome our new pitching overlord.

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