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TAMPA — There’s a new slider sweeping Yankeetown. It’s often thrown with a two-seam grip, works the horizontal plane more than a typical slider does, and is developed to play off of true two-seam ...
© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. And the move worked to perfection. After a solid outing from Schwellenbach on Tuesday and a season-best ...
NEW YORK – On the morning of Hurston Waldrep’s MLB debut, Spencer Schwellenbach spoke glowingly of his good friend. To a question about Waldrep developing the splitter and what it says about his ...
Jax’s slider, analytically, rates among the best in the majors in vertical movement, but it’s much faster than others with a similar profile. The depth of the pitch generates a high groundball rate, ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Randy Rodríguez didn’t need to tweak his slider. The pitch was performing well; Rodríguez was, too. But as April gave way to May, Rodríguez didn’t like the state of the pitch. There ...
There were times over the last four years Eric Stout thought about walking away from baseball. His big-league experience — three games in 2018 with the Kansas City Royals — left him wanting more. But ...
Shortly before big-league camp broke three weeks ago, Chicago Cubs pitcher Ethan Roberts tried using a new grip for his slider. The suggestion came from assistant pitching coach Daniel Moskos. Given ...