With the count 0-1, Brett smashed a high fastball from Gossage over the wall in right-center field to flip the script and give the Royals a 5-4 lead. No one could foresee just how wild that script was about to become. As Brett rounded the bases, Martin emerged from the Yankees dugou...
A fastball that touches triple digits? A wipeout slider? Hagen Smith has it all. An elite left-handed pitching prospect in the 2024 Draft class, Smith has all the tools to be a top-flight starter in the Major Leagues. Here's what to know about the first-round Draft pick, Continue ...
Example: Alternating between a hard-throwing fastball pitcher and a finesse pitcher with precise control can disrupt the rhythm of the opposing batters. Building a solid pitching rotation is crucial for a baseball team’s success, and decisions about pitching rotations during spring training can signi...
In the MLB, it takes less than a half second for a fastball to travel from the pitcher’s hand at their release point to home plate. That is all the time you have to react to the pitch. The average person’s reaction time is around 0.75 seconds. This means you must start your swin...
As fucked as it may be, and it is fucked. My own experience of reality has been…atypical. Presumably. I often wonder how atypical, though I am sure enough now to say that it is not the "average" experience, but it is also not the "only" experience of this kind. It all started ...
From 2008 to 2020, the average speeds of all major league baseball pitches combined rose by between 1.5 mph and 2 mph.
mood around the 16th inning has changed. Major League Baseball is experimenting, in rookie ball, with rules to shorten these games by seeding the basepaths with extra runners. "This isn't real baseball," some of us will protest. But what is real baseball once 28 or more outs ...
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Shohei struggled at first, spiking balls from the mound, whiffing at Major League gas. The explanations were reasonable: He'd often been slow to start a season; the average pitcher in the MLB throws harder than the average pitcher in the NPB; the ball is literally different (“it just ...
The Rays phenom, who dropped out of school after the sixth grade to go pro, will soon join Acuna, Vlad Jr. and Tatis among MLB's new generation of superstars. And he just might be better than all of them.