With the new swing timing and miss distance leaderboards on Baseball Savant, we started by diving into a lot of nasty pitches thrown by a lot of nasty pitchers.

• We looked at the pitchers who throw the most wipeout versions of each pitch type -- pitches that miss bats

The nastiest pitchers in baseball miss bats by a lot. We finally know exactly how much "a lot" is thanks to the new swing timing and miss distance leaderboard on Baseball Savant. Mike Petriello explains all of the cool new stats here, but just know that we can now answer

Only the greatest pitchers in Major League history have reached 3,000 strikeouts. The 3,000-K club got its newest member on July 2, 2025, when Clayton Kershaw became the 20th pitcher to record 3,000 strikeouts. Pitching at Dodger Stadium in front of the only home crowd he’s ever known in the

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Tommy John surgery is the most famous medical procedure in all of sports, and even though the road to recovery is long for the players who have it, the surgery has a lasting legacy because it has saved countless careers. Thousands of pitchers have had the ulnar collateral ligament in

He's a menace to the entire Citi! With J. Jonah Jameson in the house for the Mets' game against the Reds on Tuesday -- actor J.K. Simmons, that is -- the Amazin's had an unpleasant surprise in store for the Daily Bugle editor-in-chief. When the Mets showed Simmons on the

A good Major League starting pitcher has to figure out how to neutralize the platoon advantage. Zack Wheeler is a great starting pitcher. And over the years, he has gotten very, very effective at getting left-handed hitters out. That is a big part of Wheeler's evolution over the course of

It's phenom vs. phenom. Postseason sensation vs. postseason sensation. Schlittler vs. Yesavage. Tonight is the marquee matchup of the Yankees and Blue Jays' 2025 American League Division Series rematch: Cam Schlittler and Trey Yesavage going toe to toe.

For a while, whether you called it a forkball or a splitter, Roki Sasaki threw one signature offspeed pitch. You could quibble over what name to give it. You might think that it fit under the broader "splitter" umbrella -- the pitch that Sasaki's fellow Dodgers Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu

A lot of baseball dads tell their kids to hit line drives right back up the middle. Not Kevin McGonigle's. "Growing up, my dad always taught me to pull the ball down the line," McGonigle said. "The whole contact thing came as I grew older in the game." And that's

Happy early birthday, Yogi: It's like déjà vu all over again with the Maxes Muncy. Just in time for Berra's birthday tomorrow, we've got another eerie parallel between the Dodgers' Max Muncy and the A's Max Muncy. Another Muncy-ism, if you will.

So often, the most memorable part of a Junior Caminero home run is what comes after the swing: the bat flip, the celebration, the slow trot around the bases. But the swing -- the swing itself is just as unique. The Rays star has the most extreme swing in the

Every Major Leaguer wants to stay on the field, but injuries happen -- and some are far stranger than others. For every injury that happens on the field during a game, in practice or in a workout session, there's another that occurs off the field, sometimes in bizarre circumstances. And

He shared a field with Hideki Matsui -- in Oakland! -- played alongside Joey Votto on Team Canada, stared down José Bautista and Josh Hamilton in their primes and struck out Giancarlo Stanton. There probably aren't a whole lot of car engineers out there who can say anything like that.

Yordan Alvarez is one of baseball's most fearsome sluggers -- that's obvious. But the Astros star is more than that. Alvarez is the total package in the batter's box. There's literally nothing he's not good at. This is a guy who has a chance to win the first hitting Triple

Baseball is a global game and only growing around the world. So while the 30 Major League teams are all based in the continental United States and Canada, MLB has made an effort over the years to bring the sport to a broader audience with games played internationally. International MLB

The MLB ERA leaderboard right now is a thing of beauty. At No. 1 we've got José Soriano, the breakout Angels righty who has a historically low 0.24 ERA through six starts. But right behind him at No. 2? None other than Shohei Ohtani, who has a 0.38 ERA and

No division in baseball is doing it like the NL Central right now. A year after sending three teams to the National League playoffs, the Central is even more well-rounded in 2026. Every single team in the division currently has a winning record. It's the only one in MLB that

He broke Sadaharu Oh's home run record in Japan. Now he's on pace for even more in the Majors. Munetaka Murakami just keeps bashing home runs. After three more over the weekend, Murakami is already up to eight homers in his first MLB season -- tied for third-most in the

One of the best starting pitchers in baseball right now -- maybe the best -- doesn't even throw a four-seam fastball. But that's how nasty Cristopher Sánchez is. He doesn't need one. That's rarer than you might realize. Nearly every Major League starter has a four-seamer. Only a small handful,

What do you think you know about sliders? Let Tatsuya Imai throw that out the window. The Astros' new starter -- who's back on the mound for Friday night's series opener against the Mariners -- broke the Baseball Internet last weekend with his "wrong-way slider." And -- well, you'll just

Chase DeLauter's swing has a certain je ne sais quoi. You might think it looks beautiful. You might think it looks choppy. You might think it looks like Chase Utley's because of its short, slashing movement. Or you might think the only resemblance between DeLauter and Utley is that they're

Spring Training is always a testing ground for new pitches. It seems like every pitcher is trying something new with their arsenal. The regular season is another story. New pitch experiments from the spring evaporate as quickly as they came -- see Garrett Crochet and his new splitter, for example,

Konnor Griffin, knocking on the door to the Major Leagues at just 19 years old, took over as MLB Pipeline's No. 1 prospect in 2026 but didn't break camp with the Pirates as many had speculated he would. Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long to receive his call; he

One of the most exciting parts of Major League Baseball is when an up-and-coming young player takes the big leagues by storm. The game today is full of bright young talents. Many of MLB's current superstars ascended to the pinnacle of the sport at a young age. And some of