Last week, Jeff Sullivan wrote a post for FanGraphs within which he examined the changeup upon which Garrett Richards had been working throughout spring training — a changeup notable both (a) for its velocity and also (b) for how Richards had rarely ever thrown the pitch in the past. Indeed, a brief inspection of Richards’ pitch-type data at the site reveals that changeups represent 1% of all pitches he’s thrown over the course of his major-league career.

As Sullivan notes, however, Richards appeared this spring to become more comfortable with a change. And as the present author is noting right now, Richards appears to have become sufficiently comfortable with the change to throw it not only to Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist, but also by that same Cubs second baseman.

Proof of same, is what one finds here. Video proof. Which, like, that’s probably the second- or third-best kind of proof there is.