Plus: We finally get details on the “kick-change,” there’s a Meta-Maddux in Cincinnati, and Ken starts a heated debate. I’m ...
Some pitchers who can throw breaking balls but haven't yet found a changeup grip are finding that the kick-change fits their needs.
Added manager Bob Melvin: “We feel there’s a very high ceiling for Birdsong.” ...
The former Yankees reliever and current Mets starter helpfully demonstrated the grip, in which four fingers are flat on the ...
Pitching and hitting are continuously evolving. For Randy Dobnak, any big-league future might be tied to the continued ...
The baseball world has been taken over by discussion of the torpedo bats trend, but a Chicago Cubs pitcher is getting in on the new pitch that is trending.
“That pitch has the capability of swing-and ... Despite the copycat nature of baseball, the kick change likely won’t become baseball’s latest fad for one simple reason.
Jack Leiter doesn’t remember when he went to his first Opening Day. After all, when he was born in 2000, his father Al was in ...
You’re definitely familiar with hearing “best shape of his life,” an annual spring tradition. Pitchers have their own version ...
That is going to change this season ... percentage on the pitch. While that feels acceptable, it was driven by a large amount of luck - the expected stats, per MLB's Statcast, were a ...