A sinker is considered a variant of the two-seam fastball, and many people even think that the two are the same. However, a classic two-seamer has more of a left to right (or vice-versa) movement, while the sinker has more vertical drop. ...
He also taught me how to throw a two-seam fastball. The two-seam fastball really worked for me and the slide-step came easy as well. I look forward to putting these skills into play. I look forward to seeing the coaches evaluation in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I will ...
His velocity sits in the lower 90s at this stage of his career, but he throws six different pitch types -- a four-seam fastball, sinker, cutter, slider, curveball and splitter. Sugano's biggest swing-and-miss pitch is his splitter, the signature offering of many great Japanese aces. He...
Even his four-seam fastball is good in its own right; he’s able to get batters to swing under it often, though when they make contact, they’re able to get under it and elevate it a lot easier than his other pitches. So in that ninth-inning matchup on Tuesday afternoon, you’d...
Ohtani owns a five-pitch arsenal—four-seam fastball, curve, cutter, slider, and a split-fingered fastball. Batters hit a minuscule .087 against the splitter. At the plate, Ohtani’s blasts are preposterous: 24 of his home runs left his bat at speeds of at least 110 m.p.h., tops in...
Miller's signature pitch is his four-seam fastball, which sits around 97-99 mph for several innings at a time and routinely climbs into triple-digit territory -- such as when he struck out Shohei Ohtani in an exhibition in April 2022 and when he fanned the side at the SiriusXM All-Star...
is noble and pragmatic but underscores that Manoah is the exception. And that's the paradox: In the current baseball universe, there is better training, better infrastructure, better knowledge -- a better foundation to support building up the starter. So why is baseball sy...
When Duquette was asked about pitchers that had done well with the pitch, Mariano Rivera in particular, he pointed to the difference between a ‘cutter’ and a ‘cut fastball.’“Name me all the pitchers in the big leagues that make a living with a cut fastball? Rivera’s is a fastball...
“southpaw advantage” is substantial enough to generate a large surplus of lefty pitchers on rosters and shape the game in profound ways. Indeed, our analysis suggests that a substantial majority of MLB left-handed pitchers could not survive in the majors if they threw right-handed but had ...
Brady Aiken, last year's No. 1 pick who went unsigned by Houston, is expected to be picked early in the 2015 draft despite having Tommy John surgery.Larry Goren/Four Seam Images/AP Images One study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine in 2008 (Dines et al) focused on re...