Fernando Tatis Jr. is starting to look more like himself -- here's why
Slowly, Fernando Tatis Jr. is starting to look like himself again.
It’s not just because he literally looks like his old self in the batter’s box -- though we’ll get to that in a moment. Really, it’s that Tatis is hitting. That’s what matters. Since May 18, Tatis has a...
Fernando Tatis Jr.
These two Rays relievers rely on changeups. But they're nothing alike
You can find two of the best changeups in baseball lurking at the backend of the Rays bullpen. And they couldn't be any more different.
Bryan Baker is a strong candidate to represent Tampa Bay in Philadelphia at next month's All-Star Game thanks in part to his sterling changeup, which...
New pitch has Cease in the Cy Young conversation
Dylan Cease throws a changeup nowadays and, technically, that's not anything new. The Blue Jays right-hander threw 37 changeups with the Padres last season.
But that offering was more of a "Bugs Bunny" pitch, a term first coined by Ethan Katz, Cease's former pitching coach with the White Sox. Last...
Dylan Cease
Best free-agent signing of the year? Belli making his case
The Yankees went deep into the offseason before finally re-signing Cody Bellinger in late January. Five months later, Bellinger is the last man standing in New York’s high-powered outfield -- and one of the most important free-agent signings any team made last winter....
Cody Bellinger
Cade Smith's fastball isn't as good this year -- but his splitter is elite
This story was excerpted from Tim Stebbins' Guardians Beat newsletter, with MLB.com's Jared Greenspan filling in for this edition. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox....
Cade Smith
He's the best starter in baseball whose name you might not even know
On Wednesday night, Shohei Ohtani will toe the rubber at Dodger Stadium sporting a miniscule 1.06 ERA.
Ohtani, who is making a legitimate Cy Young Award case in 2026, owns an MLB-best 2.62 ERA since 2021 among the 99 pitchers with at least 500 innings. While that news is hardly...
Drew Rasmussen
MLB's most complete catcher has made a total transformation (in two weeks?!)
Defense has always been Dillon Dingler's strength behind the plate. As he made his way through the Tigers' system, his work in the field commonly earned him his highest scouting grades....
Dillon Dingler
MLB's slowest fastball gets hitters to swing the latest. But how?
Eight years into Tyler Rogers' career, you know the deal by now.
The submarine-style Blue Jays right-hander throws the slowest fastball in the game (83.1 mph) and an upside-down slider, and he does all that throwing like literally no one else does. It doesn’t look like it should work, but...
Tyler Rogers
'Perfect contact?' These hitters are masters of it
With the new swing timing and miss distance leaderboards on Baseball Savant, we started by diving into a lot of nasty pitches thrown by a lot of nasty pitchers.
- We looked at the pitchers who throw the most wipeout versions of each pitch type \-\- pitches that miss bats...
Juan Soto
Mookie Betts
Luis Arraez
Chandler Simpson
Ernie Clement
Alex Bregman
Brice Turang
Alec Burleson
Nico Hoerner
Cody Bellinger
Josh Jung
Miguel Vargas
This is the nastiest pitch in baseball. A new metric proves it
Mason Miller is the nastiest reliever in the game today, and by extension, perhaps the nastiest who ever lived.
We won’t say “pitcher,” because Jacob Misiorowski exists, but also this is maybe what it would look like if Misiorowski was coming out of the bullpen. Miller leads the Majors in...
Mason Miller
