When Austin, Texas trio Fastball released “The Way,” the first single from their second album, 1998’s All the Pain Money Can Buy, they hoped it would be successful. And it was. “The Way” claimed the ...

The following is an excerpt from Rob's new book "The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers" (co-written with Bill James), which is published by Fireside. Click here to purchase your copy. Click here to also ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Over five seasons as ace of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Gerrit Cole threw one of the game's hardest, heaviest fastballs, and he threw it often. The pitch helped him make millions of ...

Jack Flaherty is far from his 2019 form when he finished in fourth place in the NL Cy Young Award voting in his second full season. The St. Louis Cardinals righty's decline seems to stem from a drop ...

The radar gun never lies. It is baseball's ultimate arbitrator, impartial by nature and honest to the point of brutality. It has rendered every Jered Weaver start this season a festival of incredulity ...

In the Tokyo Dome in March, you could almost hear the zip of the ball. 101 mph. The pop of the catcher’s mitt sounded like a gunshot. 100 mph. Roki Sasaki would lift his left leg almost to his head, ...

No matter how much the sport tries to escape, minimize or pocket it, there’s no denying the fastball is still the style of pitch most synonymous with pitching. The value of a good fastball has never ...

Baseball may have evolved from sliders and curveballs to cutters and slurves, but the foundation for all good pitching remains the fastball. And since pitchers throw that pitch more than half the time ...

Brandon Pfaadt, (0-6, 7.16 ERA in 49 innings), came into this season as one of the most highly touted prospects in baseball. For example Baseball America had him ranked 26th in their pre season top ...

It's usually a big moment in the game if Andrew Miller is pitching, and April 21, 2018, was no exception. Miller was protecting a one-run Indians lead in the eighth inning, with two runners on and two ...

The Phillies are finally tapping into what Vince Velasquez does best. The new coaching staff is asking Velasquez — a tantalizing young arm with a high-velocity fastball that oozes with potential — to ...