KENT, Wash. — There’s a reason former Red Sox director of pitching Justin Willard began gifting T-shirts with the message “I throw fuego” to every pitcher in the organization who reached 100 mph in a ...
The Phillies invested $42 million per season in Wheeler as he enters his late 30s, not because of the fastball, but for his ...
Cut fastballs aren’t necessarily cutters: there are two versions of cut fastballs that we’ll talk about today. First is the ...
If you squint a little, you can start to see the possibility of a competent Twins bullpen coming together. It's going to take bounce-back years from several veterans and breakout performances from a ...
Díaz says his velocity normally climbs throughout the season, but his fastball velocity is down slightly from where it was ...
With Grapefruit and Cactus League games underway and Statcast data now available for all games due to the ABS challenge system, it’s easier than ever to identify pitchers who made changes over the ...
Velocity comes at a cost. There’s less action in today’s game with a rapidly increasing number of pitchers throwing with elite velocity and adding more spin on certain pitches. There were 11,834 fewer ...