NEW YORK --Clay Holmes, Tylor Megill and Griffin Canning have a few obvious things in common. They're right-handed pitchers. They're members of a Metsstarting rotation that has so far trounced ...

There are some special pitches in Major League Baseball from the Ghost Fork to the pitch some have called a "slutter" or a sweeper. This time? We're talking about the "kick change," a pitch that has ...

Spring is a time for pitchers to experiment with new pitches. Perhaps Paul Skenes doesn’t need a cutter or running two-seamer, but that hasn’t stopped him from tinkering. Of course, not every new ...

Believe it or not, Major League Baseball's regular season is now nearly two months old. Position players across the league are either nearing or eclipsing 200 plate appearances, while starters across ...

When is a pitch a pitch? When is a new pitch type born? Who gets credit? At some point, the slider was not a thing. Then Charles Bender threw his “nickel-curve” so often in the early part of the 20th ...

While the split finger fastball, or “splitter” and perhaps the screwball as well, hold the most mystique to many baseball fans, it’s the changeup, once known as the “slow ball” that may be the most ...