Every year, it seems, a hot new pitch type spreads across the Major Leagues. One season is the year of the high four-seamer.

Blue Jays pitcher Dylan Cease is still throwing a pitch he learned from Padres pitching coach Ruben Niebla, part of a resurgent first season in Toronto. NEW YORK — In the absence of Shohei Ohtani and ...

Nolan McLean, the prized right-hander known for generating outlier horizontal movement and spinning the baseball at absurd levels, has lost his sweeper. And no one is quite sure where it went. “It’s a ...

When Rob Friedman, the baseball analytics account known online as @PitchingNinja, posted his side-by-side overlay of Shohei Ohtani's 101 mph fastball and 88.8 mph sweeper Tuesday night, nearly 500,000 ...

The "best pitch in baseball" conversation typically centers around dominant, unhittable aces or shutdown closers. It brings to mind Jacob Misiorowski's fastball or Christopher Sanchez's changeup, or ...

Luzardo had never thrown in the ninth inning in his career before Monday's 109-pitch masterpiece. His sweeper has changed everything.

You spotted him a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it was a box score that looked wrong in a good way, or a podcast mention, or a start where the ERA was fine but the underlying numbers were better than ...