When Sonny Gray puts his hand down flat, his index finger doesn’t make it to the table. His 9,282 breaking balls — more than anybody not named Clayton Kershaw, Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander or Yu ...

SEATTLE - Over parts of 12 major-league seasons, Christian Vázquez has caught dozens of pitchers and countless variations of pitch types. Such experience leaves little room for novelty. Before Vázquez ...

There are a few trends that have become something like the natural laws of modern baseball: Unencumbered, strikeouts go up, game times get longer, and fastball usage goes down. MLB has stepped in on ...

Welcome to Mixing It Up, a weekly column where I look at starting pitchers who are making noteworthy changes to their pitch mix or pitch shape/velocity. In this column, I’ll break down three to five ...

No pitch has defined the development of pitch mixes throughout baseball like the slider. Slider usage continues to climb year after year in all levels of baseball, and for good reason. No other pitch ...

Mason Miller is the nastiest reliever in the game today, and by extension, perhaps the nastiest who ever lived. We won’t say “pitcher,” because Jacob Misiorowski exists, but also this is maybe what it ...