NEW YORK -- Aroldis Chapman paused in his signature wide stance at the base of the Yankee Stadium mound, admiring his handiwork with an intense stare. In a power vs. power showdown between players sharing a surname, the Yankees' closer prevailed. Chapman found some extra octane in the ninth inning...

Imagine a closer who dominates with cutters like Kenley Jansen but also has the triple-digit velocity of Aroldis Chapman. Well, that gives you Emmanuel Clase. Clase is showing everyone why Cleveland traded Corey Kluber to get him. The 23-year-old right-hander is overpowering hitters in his debut season with the Indians,...

Shohei Ohtani is one of the most fun players in baseball not just because he pitches and hits at the same time, but because he pitches 100-plus mph fastballs and hits 450-foot monster home runs in the same games. So when the "100 mph fastball" part went missing a month...

When an ace expands his repertoire, it can make the game's nastiest pitchers even nastier. That's exactly what's happening with these pitchers in 2021. Multiple big-name pitchers around the league have either introduced an entirely new pitch this season or are throwing a formerly little-used pitch a lot more than...

Jacob deGrom is Jacob deGrom, right? The best, most dominant pitcher in the world, same as usual. Well, yes -- it's hard to interpret anything otherwise when the Mets ace has a 0.62 ERA, 0.569 WHIP and 14.4 strikeouts per nine innings entering his 10th start of the season --...

Two years ago, Yoán Moncada did something highly entertaining and all but certainly unrepeatable -- for most hitters, anyway. As part of a breakout .315/.367/.548 season in 2019, more than 40 percent of the non-homer balls Moncada made contact with turned into hits. Expressed as a .406 Batting Average on...

BALTIMORE -- Day after day, Cedric Mullins keeps outdoing himself. The Orioles' breakout center fielder added to his already-lengthy highlight reel early in Wednesday's 14-1 loss to the Mets when he recorded the game’s first out by robbing Jonathan Villar with perhaps his best defensive play yet. Ranging 69 feet...

ANAHEIM -- Two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani’s immense power was on full display in the Halos' 8-1 win over the Royals on Tuesday at Angel Stadium, as he absolutely hammered a two-run shot off lefty Kris Bubic in the first inning that went a projected 470 feet to right-center field, per...

There’s no shortage of exciting web gems on a nightly basis, but what Indians center fielder Bradley Zimmer did in the first inning of Tuesday night's 10-1 win over the Cardinals at Busch Stadium was truly next level. With ace Shane Bieber on the mound, Zimmer robbed slugger Paul Goldschmidt...

Outfielder Akil Baddoo bookended the second inning of the Tigers' game vs. the Mariners on Tuesday night at Comerica Park with a pair of defensive plays, one far better than the other. After seemingly losing a Shed Long Jr. drive in the sun for a leadoff double, Baddoo stranded two...