In that respect, Sasaki's splitter more resembled the spin killers currently deployed by the Mariners' star trio of Logan Gilbert (640 rpm), Bryce Miller (912 rpm) and George Kirb ...

A little more than a decade ago, a pitcher by the name of R.A. Dickey threw a kind of knuckleball that baseball had essentially never seen. Now Roki Sasaki might be taking it a step further.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs open up the major league season on March 18-19 with the two-game Tokyo Series. The ...