Lakeland, Fla. — Tigers right-handed reliever Brenan Hanifee’s best pitch is his sinker. And if his early outings this spring are any indication, it’s gotten a lot better. And that’s pretty ...

The Yankees’ budding ace has leveraged a revamped arsenal to become one of the best starters in baseball.

Nolan McLean throws pitches that do not exist in nature. By the laws of geometry, Nolan McLean should not be giving up runs ...

No one in baseball throws the elevated four-seam fastball better than Tyler Glasnow. The Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander ranks first in Baseball Savant’s Pitch Run Values on fastballs in the upper ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Blengino covers all things baseball, with an analytical bent. For most of the last month in this space I’ve been unfurling my ...

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for us to visit the bump on Hump Day and discuss starting pitcher news. Each week in this article, I’ll be taking a deeper look at a few trending/surging starting ...

Kay developed a sinker while pitching with the Yokohama Bay Stars, Kade Heather of the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Kay struggled to establish himself in the majors in partial seasons from 2019 through ...

During his bounce-back 2024 season with the Mets, Luis Severino relied heavily on a pitch that he had thrown just 85 total times in his eight seasons with the Yankees. The key to filling out his ...

HOUSTON — Framber Valdez is a groundball guru, always one pitch away from avoiding danger during tense situations. Since 2018, no starting pitcher with at least 500 innings has generated more ...

When Tyler Glasnow was acquired by the Dodgers — and subsequently extended for four years, $115 million — as one of the key transactions of L.A.’s historic offseason, two major questions emerged about ...