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
8 of the nastiest pitches on new miss distance leaderboard
The nastiest pitchers in baseball miss bats by a lot.
We finally know exactly how much "a lot" is thanks to the new swing timing and miss distance leaderboard on Baseball Savant.
Mike Petriello explains all of the cool new stats here, but just know that we can now answer...
Mason Miller
Jacob Misiorowski
Tarik Skubal
Trey Yesavage
Nolan McLean
Hunter Brown
Emerson Hancock
Blake Treinen
There's an intriguing backup option for clubs chasing Skubal at the Deadline
Tarik Skubal will be the most prominent player talked about leading up to the Aug. 3 Trade Deadline.
For many teams that potentially miss out on Skubal -- or aren’t willing to meet Detroit’s likely high asking price -- there are several other intriguing pitchers who could be on the...
Reid Detmers
Which pitches miss bats by the most? Now you can know
Last summer, Clayton Kershaw gave us one more memory for the road.
Pitching against Mets infielder Ronny Mauricio in June, and nearing the end of an all-but-certain Hall of Fame career, Kershaw unleashed the curve so memorably nicknamed “Public Enemy No. 1” by Vin Scully all those years ago. The...
Clayton Kershaw
Mason Miller
Watch the 10 most extreme whiffs on record
Have you ever watched a hitter swing and miss and think, "Wow, he wasn't close to that one."
Well, thanks to Statcast's new miss distance data, we have a way to quantify that.
The new leaderboard just launched on Baseball Savant has a number of metrics that help us characterize...
The best pitch in MLB this season might surprise you, but it makes perfect sense
When you think of the best pitches in baseball this season, your mind probably goes right to Jacob Misiorowski’s blazing fastball, Mason Miller’s lethal slider or Shohei Ohtani’s devastating sweeper.
But no, it belongs to Marlins righty Anthony Bender and his bender … er, sweeper … according to Statcast’s run...
Anthony Bender
An All-Star drought of 90+ years could end this season
The American League’s starting lineup at the first-ever All-Star Game in 1933 featured all-time greats such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Charlie Gehringer. Also in that lineup, starting at third base and batting sixth, was Jimmy Dykes of the White Sox.
Nearly a century later, Dykes remains the only...
Miguel Vargas
The unique way this righty uses his sinker -- and why it works for him
Before Gavin Williams could walk through his various pitch grips, he needed to find a baseball.
"I can show you better than I can tell you," the Guardians right-hander said before a day game at Yankee Stadium last week.
Lately, Williams has done a whole lot of showing: Each start...
Gavin Williams
