What is a kick change? The hot pitch of the 2025 MLB season, explained
The definition: you're use a changeup but you're moving the ring finger that's gripping the ball in a certain way, creating ...
Explaining the new ‘kick-change’ pitch. Plus: Ohtani or Betts the better athlete?
On Monday, Hart, now 32, took the mound for the Padres and dropped his career ERA almost four runs, allowing two earned in ...
The birth of a new pitch: Why MLB players are rushing to try the ‘kick-change’
Some pitchers who can throw breaking balls but haven't yet found a changeup grip are finding that the kick-change fits their needs.
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5 MLB Pitchers Experimenting With A Kick-Change—Baseball’s Trendiest New Pitch—For 2025
The changes ... time so that the kick-change would give him a proper off-speed pitch. Leiter threw 39 changeups last season, but the command was all over the place: As Leiter explained in this ...
Mets’ Clay Holmes working to master new ‘kick’ pitch craze
The former Yankees reliever and current Mets starter helpfully demonstrated the grip, in which four fingers are flat on the ...
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What is a kick changeup? Orioles’ Cade Povich explains MLB’s trendy new pitch.
His new changeup grip — the one being tested by pitchers at every MLB ... s the kick changeup. It might be just what Povich needs in his arsenal, and the left-hander’s kick-change appears ...
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SF Giants’ Birdsong learned his signature pitch on TikTok — and it could make him ‘elite’
It helped him out tremendously.” The pitch that Birdsong learned on TikTok is the “kick change,” which is a modified version of a changeup. The key difference lies in the grip. With the kick ...
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Seattle Mariners Closer Andres Munoz Discusses New "Kick Change," Desire to Improve
"I was just practicing that. I wasn't too serious about the kick-change. But then when I started throwing it a little bit more and I threw it on the bullpen, the guys over here told me it was a ...