The 2020 Vision Series in The Athletic Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit seems to answer a vital question: How much trust can we put into numbers from the 2020 season? The question becomes particularly ...
Tim Hudson throws a cutter. Kenley Jansen throws a cutter. But are we really talking about the same pitch? It wasn’t that long ago that features popped up across the baseball world heralding the rise ...
They say that the best pitch in baseball is and always will be a well-located fastball. False. The best pitch in baseball is, in fact, a well-located cut fastball. The scary part for hitters is that ...
Lenny Dykstra's kid loves the tag. He embraces it as if it were a style more than a birthright. Cutter Dykstra, 18, loves the fact that DYKSTRA is stitched above a No. 4 on the back of his Westlake ...
The 2010 baseball season was the closest we have come to having "The Year of the Pitcher" since 1968. Back then it was customary to win more than 20 games and batting averages just barely slid into ...
Garrett Crochet, Tarik Skubal, Bryan Woo, Hunter Brown, and Paul Skenes all rank among Just Baseball’s top 10 starting pitchers, and each relies on a second fastball variation at least 15% of the time ...
It’s that time of year, time to declare things the best or the worst, time to make lists, time to argue about those lists. This will be a list of the best pitches in baseball, with video that should ...
Editor's note: This story has been updated from its original publication date of June 23, 2017, when Roy Halladay was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Roy Halladay is set to enter ...
It's been a long time since we've seen ace upside from Shane Baz. Since opening the season with double-digit strikeouts in two of his first three starts, Baz had gone 12 straight starts with six or ...
Even though spring training has wrapped up, that's no reason for us to stop looking into pitchers who are throwing new pitches. In fact, this is when the fun begins. Many pitchers will test new ...
When Theo Esptein was introduced as president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs in November of 2011 he said, "To me, baseball is better with tradition, baseball is better with history, ...