TAMPA — There’s a new slider sweeping Yankeetown. It’s often thrown with a two-seam grip, works the horizontal plane more than a typical slider does, and is developed to play off of true two-seam ...

TORONTO — Andrés Muñoz remembers the first time the Mariners suggested that he should throw his slider more than his high-octane fastball. Muñoz, who in 2019 with the Padres had his heater clocked at ...

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 ...

Travis Sawchik is a FiveThirtyEight staff writer. His new book “The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players,” co-authored with The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh, ...

The nastiest pitch in baseball is the one that ended the 2018 season. Other Major League Baseball players didn’t laugh as Manny Machado dropped to his knee trying to hit a Chris Sale slider to end the ...

TAMPA — It looked as if Luis Severino’s rocky camp would continue Tuesday after the pitcher surrendered a leadoff homer to Detroit’s Kerry Carpenter, but the Yankees right-hander recovered for his ...

The free-agent market might have played out slowly in Major League Baseball this offseason (and still is, in some cases), but the Milwaukee Brewers made some early signings. Starting pitcher Jhoulys ...

The Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati has yielded 2.23 home runs a game, the sixth-highest figure in Major League Baseball this season. But Reds starter Mat Latos, who starts Thursday against ...

Courtesy of STATS, we know which has been the most unhittable pitch in baseball over the last three years. The pitch might or might not come as a surprise to you, which is usually the case. Tony ...