However, Statcast Pitch Tracking tells us that Wheeler's cutter is his second-most-thrown pitch to LHB at 17.2 percent. Furthermore, its .228 xBA vs. LHB suggests that it did its job.

The Dodgers lefty looked promising when he began his career, but he really took off once he added a pitch he didn't even ...

A.mong pitchers with at least 700 career innings, Chapman has the highest strikeout rate (40 percent) and lowest opponent batting average (.165) in big league history.

And maybe tracking that progress will tell us a little more about what it means to be a Pitch Type in today’s game. If pitches are born in the hands of one pitcher, then Shaun Anderson is why we ...

Umpire Scorecards compile the major league's advanced pitch-tracking data to rate how accurate an umpire was during a given game. The data also considers how an umpire's call impacts the game.

Since the advent of high-precision pitch tracking in 2008, only two other starters—Justin Verlander and Sandy Alcantara—had ever thrown a ball that hard so late in a game.