More than one organization has banned the cutter at one time or another. But it's barely one pitch, and you probably wouldn't want to have banned Mariano Rivera from throwing that pitch. Turns out, ...
The 2018 Dodgers have a habit of bending pitch classifications. First came Alex Wood’s “slider.” Wood throws the pitch with a knuckle-curveball grip, and for years the pitch taggers at PitchInfo ...
When Sonny Gray puts his hand down flat, his index finger doesn’t make it to the table. His 9,282 breaking balls — more than anybody not named Clayton Kershaw, Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander or Yu ...
The longest-lasting relationship in baseball is between the pitcher and the baseball. From Little League to retirement, most Major League pitchers have a baseball as an extension of his body. He doesn ...
Shortly before big-league camp broke three weeks ago, Chicago Cubs pitcher Ethan Roberts tried using a new grip for his slider. The suggestion came from assistant pitching coach Daniel Moskos. Given ...
NEW YORK – On the morning of Hurston Waldrep’s MLB debut, Spencer Schwellenbach spoke glowingly of his good friend. To a question about Waldrep developing the splitter and what it says about his ...
Asher Wojciechowski understands the confusion about his pitch mix. Much like it has stifled opposing batters during his short tenure with the Orioles, it is doing the same to some pitch-tracking ...