The Boston Red Sox award a special T-shirt to pitchers who throw especially hard. It’s a limited-release item courtesy of Justin Willard, the team’s director of pitching, with FUEGO on the front and ...

Opening day 2023, first inning, two outs and a man on. Teoscar Hernández strolls up for his first at-bat for the Seattle Mariners. Shane Bieber is on the mound for Cleveland. Hernández, the new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Blengino covers all things baseball, with an analytical bent. With spring training camps opening all around us, it’s time to ...

Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of the game. COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Billy Wagner broke his right arm twice when he was 5 years old.

The Los Angeles Dodgers relied heavily on their bullpen to reach the 2024 World Series, including contributions from names that are a byproduct of their stellar player development. Anthony Banda is ...

Quinn Priester has only started two games for the Milwaukee Brewers, but his sharp slider has already caught the eye of the baseball martial artist. Rob Friedman, known as the "Pitching Ninja," took ...

Texas baseball ace Jared Spencer spent most of his life trying to slow down his slider, deploying it as an off-speed complement to a fastball that Spencer can dial up to 97 miles per hour. Max Weiner, ...

Noah Schultz is one of the most hyped prospects in baseball, and the Chicago White Sox southpaw's dominant slider has garnered the most praise. MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo recently conducted a poll across ...

Seattle Mariners fans are going to want to save this page for later use as a pick-me-up. It could be for this, that, or the other thing, but the point is that this is where you'll always be able to ...

Mariners' skipper Dan Wilson compared a pitch in the fourth-year pitcher's arsenal to that of two World Series champions. Seattle Mariners reliever Matt Brash has been one of the best bullpen arms in ...

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw was laboring in pursuit of his 3,000th strikeout. His pitch count soaring, he was down to the last batter he would face, needing one more swing and miss to become the ...