Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes has made countless hitters look foolish throughout his first two MLB seasons, and ...

Some pitchers who can throw breaking balls but haven't yet found a changeup grip are finding that the kick-change fits their ...

There are some special pitches in Major League Baseball from the Ghost Fork to the pitch some have called a "slutter" or a sweeper. This time? We're talking about the "kick change," a pitch that ...

But let's talk about this filthy pitch, a sweeper that starts outside to Seattle Mariners slugger Rowdy Tellez and comes darting back over the outside corner for strike three. It apparently had ...

There seemed this time to be a bit more spring in Duran’s step, possibly because it was a particularly nasty looking pitch, ...

Another is a hazard. It can be ditched entirely. His best pitch is his sweeper. Hitters bat .167 and have a .233 slugging percentage against Suarez’s sweeper. Its put-away rate is 21.5% and ...

His new sweeper had an impressive 77.3% strike rate, but it got only two whiffs primarily because he threw it gloveside just 36% of the time (13th percentile). He has to bury that thing low and away ...

There seemed this time to be a bit more spring in Duran’s step, possibly because it was a particularly nasty looking pitch, ...

For this pitch to kick into sweeper or splinker territory, though, it needs a champion. It needs a Bender, it needs a Paul Skenes, it needs a pitcher everyone wants to emulate. There are certainly ...