When launch angle became a normal part of the baseball lexicon, major league pitchers started throwing more four-seam fastballs at the top of the strike zone, and sinkers seemingly fell out of style.
A big reason for this pitch is his cutter, a pitch that has allowed a .625 Expected SLG% on the season with a 22.9% Whiff Rate. Fried has countered this by using his sinker at a higher rate in his ...
Notes on José Berríos new changeup, Adam Cimber's tweaked setup, Zach Pop's Sinker and other Blue Jays pitchers. Four of José Berríos' first six pitches against the Rays were changeups. He got Brandon ...
Framber Valdez is one of the premier arms available in this year’s free agent class. What kind of contract can he expect to ...
Some of the best pitches in the history of baseball just kind of happen. Mariano Rivera never intended to learn a cutter, and yet a game of catch where his ball started cutting turned him into the ...
It seems that the Yankees have gone where their ace, Max Fried, has taken them in the 2025 season. New York was 41-28 and 3.5 games ahead of Toronto for first place on June 15th, and Max Fried had ...