Sam Briend and Matt Blake have long been considered some of the best minds in baseball, and their work with the Yankees since being hired in 2020 speaks for itself. They’ve built a pitching empire in ...

The Royals are an incredible story, and the Orioles are an incredible story, and when you break down a big incredible story into its component bits, you're left with a whole bunch of tinier incredible ...

If you've ever watched a baseball game, odds are you've been befuddled by the sport's unique lexicon. Don't be embarrassed. Even the most loyal fan has Googled a word of jargon they heard on the ...

PHOENIX—Righthander Frank Duncan has always thrown a two-seam fastball. He just never envisioned it as his primary pitch. But since shifting to a sinker-heavy starter midway through 2015, Duncan has ...

We know Shohei Ohtani is an almost mythical creature, an offensive juggernaut (30 home runs this year) combined with an ace pitcher with a major-league-leading K/9 (among qualified starters) of 12:1 ...

Pitcher evaluation and decisions are often more about what a specific organization can tweak to a certain player than raw ...

After struggling this season with his signature split-finger fastball, Masahiro Tanaka has a new problem: a distinctive lack of sink in his sinker. And for someone who throws splitters roughly a ...

When launch angle became a normal part of the baseball lexicon, major league pitchers started throwing more four-seam fastballs at the top of the strike zone, and sinkers seemingly fell out of style.

PITTSBURGH — Clay Holmes had been working to understand his power sinker long before he was acquired by the Yankees in July 2021. The 6-foot-5 right-hander had long been the type of pitcher who had ...