The Philadelphia Phillies have put together one of the best starting rotations in baseball heading into the 2025 season. It is going to be what ultimately determines their fate as it will be the ...

Earlier this month, Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs wrote about a global trend in pitching throughout MLB. Pitchers are throwing fewer fastballs (as a percentage of total pitches) than ever before, at ...

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 four-seam fastball had its time in the sun. But another familiar pitch has been stepping up to steal its thunder. Pitchers never officially retired the sinker, but they did move away from the ...

The last several years have been famously unkind to the sinker. It’s an endangered pitch because, in the eyes of too many, getting swings and misses is the first job of a pitcher, and the sinker doesn ...

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.