Yomiuri Giants reliever Scott Mathieson is no longer the pitcher he was when he turned up on these shores in 2012 as a 28-year-old, he's better.With 15 major league games to show for 10 seasons in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, Mathieson was brought here to blow pitches past batters unused to 160 kilometer-per-hour fastballs. But through exposure to different approaches -- and embracing many of the differences -- he has transformed himself."I was a rock thrower," he told Kyodo News recently. "And now I can actually pitch."Much of that had to do with learning to live with less speed…READ FULL ARTICLE
