The 2010 baseball season was the closest we have come to having "The Year of the Pitcher" since 1968. Back then it was customary to win more than 20 games and batting averages just barely slid into ...

Lenny Dykstra's kid loves the tag. He embraces it as if it were a style more than a birthright. Cutter Dykstra, 18, loves the fact that DYKSTRA is stitched above a No. 4 on the back of his Westlake ...

The 2020 Vision Series in The Athletic Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit seems to answer a vital question: How much trust can we put into numbers from the 2020 season? The question becomes particularly ...

Tim Hudson throws a cutter. Kenley Jansen throws a cutter. But are we really talking about the same pitch? It wasn’t that long ago that features popped up across the baseball world heralding the rise ...

It’s that time of year, time to declare things the best or the worst, time to make lists, time to argue about those lists. This will be a list of the best pitches in baseball, with video that should ...

A couple years ago, the cut fastball was Mariano Rivera's pitch. He was the only pitcher in baseball who threw it with any regularity, not to mention with any real skill. Now it seems like every ...

There has been much excitement since it was announced that Harper Lee would finally be releasing a second book. Who wouldn’t be pumped to read more adventures with Scout, Atticus Finch, that one dude, ...

Even though spring training has wrapped, that's no reason for us to stop looking into pitchers who are throwing new pitches. In fact, this is when the fun begins. Many pitchers will test new pitches ...

Rooting for hometown heroes has never been easy for cord-cutting sports fans. As the Major League Baseball season approached this year, some MLB fans had held onto hopes that the league — usually an ...

Adam Wainwright may be on the shelf, but two pitchers who learned at his right hand—and arm—are having the best seasons of their career. Earlier this season, we touched on Shelby Miller and the ...