Every time the Wizards of Analytics roll out a new metric, a certain segment of fans react as if we’ve discovered the Rosetta Stone of Baseball. Those fans believe “launch angle” reveals the right way ...

One of baseball’s oldest catchphrases is “spin to win.” For most of the game’s history, it referred to the success a pitcher could have with a particularly nasty curveball. Now, as analytics and ...

Jun. 10—In the early years of fantasy baseball, all you had was basic statistics and what you saw with your own eyes, wherever your could watch a game. Since 1980, baseball and its terminology and ...

Oh boy. It finally looks the MLB is ready to crack down on pitchers using foreign substances. Perhaps that's why Gerrit Cole's spin rate was down on Thursday; you can read more about it below.

Happy Monday, everybody! It's especially happy for Blue Jays fans that get to routinely watch one of the best offenses in baseball. Entering Sunday, the Blue Jays were averaging 4.9 runs per game ...

With the year winding to a close, Baseball Prospectus is revisiting some of our favorite articles of the year. This was originally published on September 27, 2016. Now that Statcast has begun making ...

PORT CHARLOTTE — The subject was spin rate, and that brought Jim Palmer back to a question he once asked Elrod Hendricks, one of Palmer's catchers during his years in Baltimore. "How do I get them out ...

MLB is threatening to crack down on pitchers’ use of materials that, in addition to making the baseball easier to grip, also make the baseball easier to spin. Pitches that spin more also move more ...

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright, known for his fearsome curveball, took the mound Tuesday against the Chicago Cubs in St. Louis. Perception is important when you have a 5-ounce, 2 ...

So you were heading into your fantasy draft and thinking about what pitching staffs to target. "Okay, the Dodgers are loaded, those Mariners sure look good, maybe I can get a few Braves. Do I want to ...

Baseball is on the verge of policing one of its oldest unwritten rules, fighting technology with technology in an effort to cut down on a perceived rise in pitchers using foreign substances to ...