Move over slider, curve, slurve and screwball, there’s a new (ish) breaking ball making the rounds in the majors: the sweeper. Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani uses it, as do Padres starter Yu ...

Rodríguez’s revamped slider generated considerable horizontal break during that first bullpen session, moving more like a ...

Move over slider, curve, slurve and screwball, there’s a new (ish) breaking ball making the rounds in the majors: the sweeper. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.

The one thing was to stop chasing movement on your slider, sweeper, whatever you want to call it, and add in velo. More velo, less movement.” As you can see in the graph above, Gray’s been ...

Joe Ryan has always run impressive strikeout and walk rates. To finally earn his first All-Star nod, though, he finally ...

The work paid off: In 2017, Bauer saw just 2.83 inches of horizontal movement on his slider, which ranked him 131st in baseball. But this season, he’s up to 11.1 inches, putting him third.

Syndergaard throws the Warthen slider — named after Mets' pitching coach Dan Warthen — at somewhere between 92 mph and 95 mph, but the movement on the pitch makes it sometimes look more like a ...