This time? We're talking about the "kick change," a pitch that has become mega popular in 2025. The definition: you're use a changeup but you're moving the ring finger that's gripping the ball in ...

Some pitchers who can throw breaking balls but haven't yet found a changeup grip are finding that the kick-change fits their ...

The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter ... Plus: We finally get details on the “kick-change,” there’s a Meta-Maddux in Cincinnati, and Ken starts a heated ...

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 ...

MIAMI — It is not the sweeper that, well, swept across the baseball world beginning in 2023, but the kick-change has begun popping up (and, more literally, darting down) throughout the sport.

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 ...

If pitches are born in the hands of one pitcher, then Shaun Anderson is why we have the kick-change. Anderson, a veteran who has bounced around from MLB to KBO, is a supinator, meaning he’s more ...