The horizontal movement on those five sweepers ranged from 4” to 14” with an average of 9” — the pitch is still obviously a ...

Lefty Yusei Kikuchi was dominant down the stretch with the Astros last season once he started to incorporate his slider more ...

The early returns on the pitch are so encouraging that MLB.com writer David Adler included Luzardo's new sweeper on his list of the 15 best new pitches from around the league in spring training.

“You have to have them all, right?” he said. His new a pitch? A sweeper slider. In his second Cactus League start, Hancock threw it heavily. But this isn’t a luxury addition to an already ...

Kikuchi has added a sweeper to his pitch mix, Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com reports.