Cam Schlittler garnered plenty of attention with his latest pitching outing during Wednesday’s matchup between the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners. Schlitter has a knack for throwing plenty of ...

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Stuff+ is a relatively new baseball stat. FanGraphs tracks its version back to 2020, and the stat “looks only at the physical characteristics of a pitch.” That includes things like velocity, arm angle ...

Velocity is the holy grail all pitchers chase in today’s game. In pursuit of it, they may not risk their lives, but they quite literally risk their limbs. With the year-over-year stats at Baseball ...

Shohei Ohtani is used to recording stats that baseball has never seen before. One of the wildest stats the two-way superstar has, though, is about the batter he's faced when throwing his hardest heat.

For Major League Baseball pitchers, high pitch velocity has become one of the most coveted skills. But a recent study co-authored by Brown researchers found that higher pitch speed on its own is not ...

Baseball pitching is an intricate interplay of kinematics and kinetics, where the coordination of multiple body segments is critical to generating high ball velocities while minimising injury risk.

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