Both of these curveballs are thrown with your index and middle finger along the seam of the baseball. When releasing the pitch, you snap your wrist straight down to create the breaking motion. The Slider The slider is a popular “put away” pitch because of the sharp break that occurs dur...
France is playing with newfound "dad strength" after he and his wife last week welcomed the birth of their first child. But he'd already been heating up at the plate before going on the paternity list. Scroll tothe first baseman's Baseball Savant page, and it's all red. He ranks in...
“What a nice evening for Manny. He had a big swing in the first to get us on the board,” said Padres skipper Mike Shildt, who managed his first game in St. Louis since being fired by the Cardinals after the 2021 season. Merrill, who launched a game-ending homer Sunday against the...
Morton can still lean on his fastball, changeup and cutter whenever necessary. But he finds himself thankful to have stuck around long enough to be part of an era during which his best pitch no longer had to be a secondary pitch. “I was fortunate to be in a stage in baseball where ...
Mookie Betts homered on the first pitch of the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.Betts first career game-ending homer capped a wild last few innings. The Twins rallied from a 2-1 de
and an open base in the third after the Rangers had taken a 1-0 lead on Jonah Heim’s RBI double. When Seager came up with a runner on and two outs in the fifth, the World Series MVP lined a 97.7 mph inside cutter on the first pitch into the right-field seats to make it 4-0...
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(8.0%). His 74.7 MPH bat speed is elite, which makes his contact rates even more impressive, because that bat speed/contact combo is in even more rarified air. He’s also the fastest man in baseball by a good margin with a 30.5 ft/sec sprint. It all resulted in a .332/32/31 ...
Michael Rucker appeared in 35 games last season with the Chicago Cubs. The 29-year-old had a 4.91 ERA in 40 1/3 innings, striking out 40 batters, walking 19 and pitching to a 51.8% ground ball rate. According toBaseball Savant, Rucker throws a four-seam fastball, cutter, slider, curve...
Just look at how many sliders have more than 12 inches of break, towards a pitcher's glove side. The rate is nearly _three times higher_ than it was in 2009, and double what it was just three years ago, a number you can get to using Baseball Savant’s handy new pitch movement ...