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.

So this season introduced new pitch-tracking cameras that instead capture 300 frames per second. (There are two cameras behind home plate, one by first base, one by third base and one in center ...

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

Understanding Pitch Classification In The Pitch-Tracking Era. May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 Geoff Pontes. Image credit: Corbin Burnes (Photo by Joe Puetz/Getty Images) ...

The slider is on a major upswing and has become much more common since 2008, the first season of the pitch-tracking era. This season, sliders are up 8.2 percentage points compared to 15 years ago.

Since 2008, when pitch-tracking systems were up and running in all major league parks, Hader owns the greatest career swing-and-miss rate of any pitcher on four-seamers (38.7 percent) with at ...

Baltimore Orioles' Fireballers Do Something Never Done For Team in 15 Years of Pitch-Tracking. The Baltimore Orioles did something they've never done in the pitch-tracking era on Sunday in a win ...

Before Marquee Sports Network arrived on the scene, NBC Sports Chicago hadn’t had a competing regional sports network since Fox Sports Net Chicago shut down in 2006. It wasn’t much of a ...

The switch to Statcast’s pitch-tracking system has been frustrating at times. Hannah Foslien / Getty Images There’s a good argument to be made that MLB launched the new sports – data ...

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 ...