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These days, every season seems to have a trendy new pitch: the high-spin four-seamer a while back, the sweeper two years ago, ...
The San Francisco Giants beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-5 on Thursday afternoon at Oracle Park in San Francisco. With the win, the Giants are now an impressive 17 ...
Boeing’s conversations with the Pentagon about Golden Dome have focused on production lines the company can ramp up and where ...
The Royals defeated the Twins on Thursday. Umpire Scorecards shined a light on MLB umpire Mark Ripperger for what they concluded was a perfectly called game.
That individual pitch, at 90 mph and 555 rpm, is something like a unicorn in pitch-tracking history. It’s one of only seven ...
With a fastball averaging 99.4 mph, Reds flamethrower Hunter Greene throws harder than any starter on record. It has made him ...
25 swings) during the pitch tracking era, while his 22 changeup whiffs were also a record. More than half of Sanchez's pitches (51.5%) were changeups, accounting for 11 of his 12 strikeouts.
Advertisement But the story of the slider tells us that, before the age of pitch tracking, there was this new pitch that one pitcher was throwing, then a few more threw it, then it had a name (and ...
Chapman has thrown a pitch faster than 100 mph in 16 straight seasons, a record for the pitch-tracking era. His 98.9 mph average fastball velocity is the fastest among pitchers with at least 500 ...
Welcome, RotoBallers, to our overview of Statcast Pitch Tracking. This article is a deeper dive into Statcast Pitch Tracking and is part of our ongoing series "Using Sabermetrics for Fantasy Baseball.