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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) When Dusty Baker first played in the minor leagues at age 18, he had only seen curveballs and never a slider. ''When I went to swing at it, it would like move right at the right time ...

Jackson Merrill and the Padres rebounded from their hard-fought 8-7 Game 1 loss to the Dodgers on Monday with an 11-1 demolition in Game 2 on Tuesday. Wrecked by injury to starting pitchers, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...