Yahoo Sports MLB writers Zach Crizer and Hannah Keyser discuss whether or not the slider will overtake the fastball as the most popular pitch in baseball and the factors that are contributing to ...

How good is Andrés Muñoz’s slider? ‘It’s the best pitch in the game’ TORONTO — Andrés Muñoz remembers the first time the Mariners suggested that he should throw his slider more than his high-octane ...

The sweeper — a horizontal slider — had long been lumped in with other breaking balls. Thanks to a change in the Statcast system, it is suddenly its own thing. Clarke Schmidt is one of several Yankees ...

This season, Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Dauri Moreta has emerged as one of the hot topics around baseball because of his unique slider that largely has baffled hitters. “It’s a unicorn pitch. I have ...

The slider is Oviedo's best and most-used pitch, and he has the ability to move it around the strike zone or have it fall out for chases. However, hitters seemed to be on it of late, swinging at it ...

CHICAGO – When Jacob Misiorowski sent Statcast into a fritz, at least temporarily, during his electrifying major-league debut, it was understandable. The triple-digits four-seam fastball has so much ...

Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch visited free-agent right-hander Jack Flaherty in Las Vegas. The recruitment visit from Hinch led to Flaherty signing a one-year, $14 million contract with the Tigers ...

Note: This story was originally published on May 25, 2023. Identifying pitches without the help of TrackMan, Hawk-Eye or other ball-tracking devices is as much an art as it is science. Baseball ...

JUPITER, Fla. - Right-hander Jeremy Hellickson is embracing the notion that spring training is a time to test out new things. One he's growing pretty comfortable with, the other remains a work in ...