The best pitch in baseball is Jacob Misiorowski’s four-seam fastball, an overpowering heater from the hardest-throwing starting pitcher of all time. You will see it early and often on Saturday afternoon, as Misiorowski takes the mound for the Brewers in Game 1 of the NLDS at American Family Field. Saturday's...

Mookie Betts endured the weakest offensive season of his career in 2025 (.732 OPS, a league-average-ish 104 OPS+), and, for most of 2026, it seemed like more of the same. Through the first 90 games, which took us more than halfway through August, given that he missed time earlier with...

When baseball's best team takes the field this postseason, you're going to see heat, and lots of it. Now, to some extent, you're going to see heat from every team, because the playoffs always bring out faster fastballs. The postseason velo bump is real. But it also brings out a...

Turn on the American League Division Series this weekend and spend a few innings watching the AL-best Rays, a 98-win machine, and you might notice something peculiar. In an era of baseball where it is exceedingly difficult -- and, seemingly, less of a priority -- to put the ball in...

We're about to kick off our first postseason under the new era of ABS challenges. So we want to give you a quick primer of what to expect. In October, every ball or strike challenge is going to be magnified, especially if they swing a playoff game or two or...

If 2026 is “the year of the lefty batter,” given that lefties are taking a higher share of plate appearances and with more success doing so than at nearly any other time in recent Major League history, then the Red Sox may have a pretty effective countermeasure headed into the...

There’s no shortage of praise that can be heaped upon Pete Crow-Armstrong's stunning season. He became one of the very few players in baseball history to post a 40/40 year, broke Statcast-era defensive records, challenged the all-time Cubs single-season records for Wins Above Replacement (WAR) and – we assume –...

Every playoff team has its strengths, its weaknesses, its signature skills. We want to find some of the things that will matter most this October. So we're diving into the Statcast data for the teams that are sitting in clear playoff position and picking out some of the most interesting...

Each October, some reliever takes over the postseason. It’s not always the biggest name and star – though it can be – but sometimes, a lesser-known or even out-of-nowhere arm gets hot at exactly the right time in exactly the right games, and ends up pushing his team to greater...

Mason Miller, Jacob Misiorowski and Josh Hader have a whole lot in common. We can start with the fact that they are three of the best pitchers in baseball, elite flamethrowers whose names are synonymous with this era of unprecedented power pitching. Lowest expected ERA, 2026 Min. 50 balls in...