Sam Briend and Matt Blake have long been considered some of the best minds in baseball, and their work with the Yankees since being hired in 2020 speaks for itself. They’ve built a pitching empire in ...
During his senior year at Parkview Baptist High in Baton Rouge, righthander Josh Green remembers a former player returning to campus to talk to the baseball team. His name was Blake Johnson, a former ...
TAMPA, Fla. — Yankees right-hander Marcus Stroman sat up in his chair with a sudden twinge of curiosity. He reached into his locker at Steinbrenner Field and grabbed his cellphone, then snapped a ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Kyle Gibson, one of the nine pitchers added this past winter and in Cardinals spring training, shows the grip on his two-seam ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Blengino covers all things baseball, with an analytical bent. For most of the last month in this space I’ve been unfurling my ...
Justin Martinez' breakout season has continued since we last wrote about him on May 11th. In that article we focused on how his splitter has become an elite pitch with tremendous movement, inducing ...
We know Shohei Ohtani is an almost mythical creature, an offensive juggernaut (30 home runs this year) combined with an ace pitcher with a major-league-leading K/9 (among qualified starters) of 12:1 ...
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 ...