The rainbow of arm angles you'll see in the playoffs
In the playoffs, you won't just see the best pitchers in the world on the mound, you'll see pitchers who come at you from every angle.
You'll see submarine, sidearm, three-quarters and straight over-the-top deliveries. All the different arm slots Major League pitchers use to attack hitters will be on...
Tim Hill
Chris Sale
Josh Hader
Cole Ragans
Tarik Skubal
José Alvarado
Hunter Brown
Dylan Cease
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Gerrit Cole
Zack Wheeler
Edwin Diaz
5 tools, 5 highlight-reel plays for 2024
In baseball, we talk about five-tool players all the time. They're the players who can do it all -- hit for contact and power, with the speed, glove and arm to be the ultimate all-around stars.
But what do those tools look like in action?
With the regular season wrapping...
Aaron Judge
Luis Arraez
Pete Crow-Armstrong
Daulton Varsho
Kevin Kiermaier
Skenes, J-Rod, Ohtani putting up historic stats
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (Sept. 20-26).
Skenes Day: Through his 22nd career start on Sunday, Paul Skenes has 167 strikeouts. That’s the fifth-most by any player in his first 22 career appearances since at least 1901, trailing only 1995 Hideo...
Pitchers' secret ingredient to getting nasty movement? Let's explore
Paul Skenes, in the midst of one of the most impressive rookie pitching seasons in decades, releases his 99 mph four-seam fastball from 5.7 feet high, just a tick under the Major League average of 5.8 feet. Jeremiah Estrada, a breakout San Diego reliever who struck out 13 consecutive hitters...
Paul Skenes
Jeremiah Estrada
Kaleb Ort
Sean Manaea
Framber Valdez
Kenley Jansen
Zack Wheeler
What’s behind one of MLB’s biggest breakouts in 2024?
It started with a single.
A little jam shot, in fact -- just 77.9 mph off the bat. But for Lawrence Butler, it might as well have been a walk-off grand slam.
When the young A’s outfielder lined an inside fastball from D-backs starter Brandon Pfaadt back up the middle...
Lawrence Butler
How the Tigers got creative to get back in the race
For the last 50 games, the Tigers haven't featured a traditionally functional starting rotation. That's in large part because they’ve barely had a rotation at all.
In the span of two weeks in July, Detroit lost starters Kenta Maeda (demoted to the bullpen on July 11), Reese Olson (injured on...
Tarik Skubal
Keider Montero
The hitter who refused to strike out, Witt's 30-30 season among stats of the week
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (Sept. 13-19).
JULIOOOO: On Friday, Julio Rodríguez became one of two players in MLB history with at least 75 homers and 75 stolen bases in the first three seasons of his career, along with Bobby Witt...
These are the fastest pitches hit for a home run in the pitch-tracking era
Throwing a triple-digit heater is impressive. How about hitting one over the fence?
In the pitch-tracking era -- which began in 2008 -- there have been 85 pitches thrown 100-plus mph that have been hit for home runs (playoffs included). That includes 22 home runs against pitches thrown 101-plus mph...
12 under-the-radar relievers who could dominate October
You remember the relief heroes of last postseason, right? No, we're not talking about Craig Kimbrel or Aroldis Chapman. We are of course referring to household names Kevin Ginkel and Josh Sborz. What about the year before, when it was Nick Martinez, among others -- or in 2021, when the...
Luke Weaver
Kaleb Ort
Lucas Erceg
Justin Martinez
Jeremiah Estrada
Kris Bubic
A.J. Puk
Michael Kopech
Keegan Akin
Griffin Jax
Aaron Ashby
From Triple-A castoff to leading a 1st-place rotation? Here's how he did it
On Sept. 14, 2022, Tobias Myers had a rough day on the mound.
Drawing the start for Triple-A Charlotte, the right-hander surrendered two homers and was tagged for six runs in his lone inning of work. In his final outing of the season, Myers was saddled with the loss, dropping...
Tobias Myers