Texas baseball's coaching staff helped Jared Spencer tweak his slider. He used it to dominate Georgia on Friday.

Crochet earns an "A++", with the Padres' Nick Pivetta and Phillies' Zack Wheeler right behind with "A+" marks. Nine other ...

Yahoo Sports MLB writers Zach Crizer and Hannah Keyser discuss whether or not the slider will overtake the fastball as the most popular pitch in baseball and the factors that are contributing to ...

Opening day 2023, first inning, two outs and a man on. Teoscar Hernández strolls up for his first at-bat for the Seattle Mariners. Shane Bieber is on the mound for Cleveland. Hernández, the new ...

Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of the game. COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Billy Wagner broke his right arm twice when he was 5 years old.

The whirly. The hand of God. The sweeper. The slutter. The riding slider. Baseball’s newest pitch has many different names, but mostly one form. It’s a slider that, because of the way the seams are ...

There are a few trends that have become something like the natural laws of modern baseball: Unencumbered, strikeouts go up, game times get longer, and fastball usage goes down. MLB has stepped in on ...

Welcome to Mixing It Up, a weekly column where I look at starting pitchers who are making noteworthy changes to their pitch mix or pitch shape/velocity. We often assume that the offseason is the only ...

Welcome to Mixing It Up, a weekly column where I look at starting pitchers who are making noteworthy changes to their pitch mix or pitch shape/velocity. In this column, I’ll break down three to five ...