They say that the best pitch in baseball is and always will be a well-located fastball. False. The best pitch in baseball is, in fact, a well-located cut fastball. The scary part for hitters is that ...

The 2018 Dodgers have a habit of bending pitch classifications. First came Alex Wood’s “slider.” Wood throws the pitch with a knuckle-curveball grip, and for years the pitch taggers at PitchInfo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the most interesting stories to come out of spring training surround players who make material changes and are open about them with the media. A.J. Griffin, who ate 200 innings for the ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated from its original publication date of June 23, 2017, when Roy Halladay was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Roy Halladay is set to enter ...