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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 ...
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 ...
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 that's all the rage in MLB: the sweeper. Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani uses it, ...
But enough about that. Cease said he changed something with his slider, a pitch he throws 35 percent of the time and will often use close to 50 percent of the time when other pitches aren’t ...
Welcome back, RotoBallers, to my weekly "Starting Pitcher Arsenal Changes" article series for Week 25 of the 2024 fantasy baseball season. Today's article will discuss Davis Martin and Yusei Kikuchi.
Since deGrom's slider movement profile hasn't changed and the results looked solid, we might expect the whiffs to return. deGrom's slider allows a .225 wOBA (.228 xwOBA) versus righties and .192 ...
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 ...