A pitcher can do magic with a baseball. He can throw it harder than 100 mph, or slower than 70 mph. He can make it break to ...
After a dominant first MLB season that saw him start the All-Star Game, finish third in the National League CY Young award voting, and win NL Rookie of the Year, Paul Skenes isn't resting on his ...
Virtually every Major League pitcher throws a combination of pitches, with starting pitchers often owning an arsenal of three or more offerings. Relief pitchers, who infrequently face the same batter ...
Paul Skenes put forth a tremendous effort on Friday night for the Pittsburgh Pirates, blanking the Los Angeles Dodgers through six and a third innings to earn his third win of the season. Skenes ...
At the major league level, a pitcher’s arm can be worth tens of millions of dollars. Players, teams and Major League Baseball itself all have a vested interest in reducing season- and potentially ...
This piece is excerpted from Eno Sarris’ “10 bold predictions for the 2025 MLB season.” In the marketplace of pitches, stock in sinkers was performing awfully in the pitch-tracking era. Between 2008 ...
On Friday night, all eyes were on Skenes as he matched against Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Dodgers’ high-priced star. Skenes delivered his most dominant start of the year: 6 1/3 shutout innings, a ...
Shohei Ohtani still has a long way to go before he's ready to pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But the two-way superstar took an important step in his recovery Tuesday. Ohtani threw breaking pitches ...
As Devin Williams exited the field Wednesday night, having just walked in the go-ahead run on a borderline pitch, he gave umpire Brian Walsh a piece of his mind. “I had four (strikes),” Williams ...