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 ...

It is easy to get too cute when thinking about pitching. For all the attention given Masahiro Tankaka’s splitter and Jose Fernandez’s curveball and Stephen Strasburg’s change up, there is no ...

A fastball is a pitcher's bread and butter, whether he is a starter atop a team's rotation running through the opposing lineup multiple times or a high-octane reliever trying to slam the door with a ...

*The lefthanded pitchers actually have a negative horizontal break which indicates running movement towards the opposite side of the plate compared to righthanders. For this table those values have ...

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 ...

There will be no baseball for months, but there will be time to wonder about baseball. For your pondering, here is one question found to spark stark disagreement: What’s a cutter? Is it a fastball, or ...