Recently, I was having a conversation with a coach from a successful collegiate program when a profound concept—an explanation really—hit me. Like most realizations, it was the brutal simplicity of it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Travis Sawchik is a FiveThirtyEight staff writer. His new book “The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players,” co-authored with The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh, ...

Patrick Corbin guesses he’s about 12 years old in the photo. He’s warming up in the outfield grass before a Little League game, clad in white and blue and wearing a glove so big it looks like a ...

Texas baseball ace Jared Spencer spent most of his life trying to slow down his slider, deploying it as an off-speed complement to a fastball that Spencer can dial up to 97 miles per hour. Max Weiner, ...