After 16 seasons and 470 career saves, less than 10 away from passing Lee Smith for third on the all-time MLB leaderboard, Kenley Jansen is still looking for every last edge he can squeeze out of the ...

A cutter is a version of the fastball, designed to move slightly toward the pitcher's glove side as it reaches home plate -- a cutter from a right-handed pitcher will "cut" away from a right-handed ...

Baseball in 2024 belongs to pitchers. It's not just the .699 leaguewide OPS or the average fastball velocity approaching 95 mph. It's the widespread desire for starters and relievers to stroll into a ...

The cutter. A game saver, reviver, the magical pitch which can change a pitcher's career. The pitch where home runs become strikeouts. Mariano Rivera isn't the only one. How about 2010 Cy Young Roy ...

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 ...

Almost two weeks into the 2024 season and there are already plenty of interesting storylines so far this season. So this month’s column is going to focus on some of my early season observations and ...

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 ...

Before the start of the season, I wanted to see which pitchers statistically had the best fastballs, curveballs, sliders, cutters, changeups and splitters of the 2010 season. Here are a look at the ...