Tim Hudson throws a cutter. Kenley Jansen throws a cutter. But are we really talking about the same pitch? It wasn’t that long ago that features popped up across the baseball world heralding the rise ...

Paul Skenes debuted a new pitch during his first spring training start with the Pittsburgh Pirates entering the 2025 season on Saturday. Skenes showed off his new cutter in a 5-2 victory over the ...

CLEVELAND — There aren't many times a pitcher can basically tell a hitter what pitch is coming next, and it just doesn't matter. Hitters need to be kept off balance, at least to an extent, unless a ...

More MLB: Power Rankings | Expert Picks | Latest news & notes | Fantasy news What follows cannot be classified as breaking news for two reasons: One, it happened Saturday night, and, two, it's not ...

WASHINGTON (AP) When Dusty Baker first played in the minor leagues at age 18, he had only seen curveballs and never a slider. ''When I went to swing at it, it would like move right at the right time ...

José Alvarado should have been a bust. That's just what happens when you trade with the Tampa Bay Rays, from whom the Philadelphia Phillies acquired Alvarado on Dec. 29, 2020. The last time the ...