Last year’s KBO (Korean Baseball Organization) league average fastball (four-seam fastball) velocity was 146.0 km/h. This was significantly faster than 2024, 142.6 km/h, narrowing the gap with Japan’s ...

AS A SOPHOMORE in high school, Bubba Chandler set a goal. Chandler was a three-sport athlete: star quarterback, varsity basketball starter as a freshman, pitcher on the baseball team -- and a scratch ...

Justin Verlander is one of the few pitchers to have performed during the entire pitch-tracking era of Major League Baseball.

Earlier this week, Padres pitching coach Ruben Niebla referred to Mason Miller as the best pitcher in baseball. That may ...

Baseball games today, particularly from a pitching perspective, emphasize velocity more than the duration pitchers stay in the game. In earlier baseball eras, pitchers were expected to cover more ...