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I saw the Longoria AB: No contest!
I thought that Farquhar looked all gangly and arm-ey and odd. Hard to pick up the ball odd. I thought his FB had more pop than advertised. It played faster. But if your best pitch is essentially a bending/ephus/Hooten-esque knuckle-curve/change....then your 94 MPH heater becomes a red corvette. It just looks fast, standing still.
The Mad Hungarian loved to pitch. Eckersly loved to pitch. Hoffman loved to pitch. And they had mojo-sized nards, too.
Don't know much yet about F'q, but I was really impressed with the save the other night. I cringed when League came in as a closer, because he had one offering. If you layed off it, he was toast. He wasn't good enough to dominate with it.
The problem with the ephus-type yakker, for a batter facing the closer who throws it, is that you only see it in one AB. You might only see two of them in that AB. And the pitch in-between just hopped off your internal radar gun.
Give 'em three assorted pitches, anytime, anywhere. Make one of 'em a seemingly turboed FB. Add a Lee Treveno/John Stockton/Bobby Riggs/some Hungarian dude wheeling and dealing = not a bad template.
Give him the job for the next 50 days!