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 ...

Aided by advances in pitch tracking and biomechanic technology and the strike zone going from East-West to North-South (as ...

The Royals are an incredible story, and the Orioles are an incredible story, and when you break down a big incredible story into its component bits, you're left with a whole bunch of tinier incredible ...

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 ...

PHOENIX—Righthander Frank Duncan has always thrown a two-seam fastball. He just never envisioned it as his primary pitch. But since shifting to a sinker-heavy starter midway through 2015, Duncan has ...

Earlier this month, Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs wrote about a global trend in pitching throughout MLB. Pitchers are throwing fewer fastballs (as a percentage of total pitches) than ever before, at ...

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 ...