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 ...

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.

Was there any doubt that Bryce Harper was going to answer the critics after the offseason? His game-tying home run in the ...

Major League Baseball’s crackdown on the use of illegal substances by pitchers is certainly changing behavior, at the very least. One of the biggest advances in baseball in the last decade has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

In modern baseball, spin rate stands out among pitching metrics, but its true value lies in its effects on performance and injury risk. Spin rate — the speed of baseball rotation in revolutions per ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 10—In the early years of fantasy baseball, all you had was basic statistics and what you saw with your own eyes, wherever ...

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 ...