There are two theories about how to hit Cruz's splitter. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/fernando-cruzs-splitter-is-unhittable-but-batters-keep-trying/
The Washington Nationals right-hander might be baseball’s most underrated closer.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-finnegans-most-important-pitch-derives-from-roy-faces-forkball/
This is one of the very best systems in all of baseball, with the most Top 100 prospects of any team in the sport.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/chicago-cubs-top-47-prospects-2024/
I remember hearing that while it’s good to throw strikes, it’s actually a bad thing to throw pitches right down the middle if you can avoid it.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/clarke-schmidt-is-spinning-in-all-the-right-places/
Kansas City shouldn’t count on clutch continuing, but that doesn’t mean it won’t. Plus, break up the Rockies! Also, an Atlanta ghost bench update.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/top-of-the-order-the-royals-perform-when-it-counts/
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the “effectively wild” debut of Paul Skenes and the Pirates’ bases-loaded walkathon, an in-development TV series about Ippei Mizuhara, the demotion...
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-2164-the-batcast-era/
Avoiding outfield walls.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jay-jaffe-fangraphs-chat-5-14-24/
The former KBO star faces an extended absence after he dislocated his left shoulder crashing into the outfield wall.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jung-hoo-lee-goes-down-amid-a-brutal-string-of-giants-injuries/
Bat tracking data is going to usher in a new tidal wave of analysis. Here are some things worth investigating, as well as a few places I looked and found very little.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/what-statcasts-new-bat-tracking-data-does-and-doesnt-tell-us/
I regret not getting to this two weeks ago, because I would’ve hammered the “more like Lucas Goose-egg” joke until you started sending me rotten vegetables in the mail.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lucas-erceg-oaklands-other-breakout-reliever/