SEATTLE — In 2006, back in the days when the Red Sox were trying to win, they outbid other determined teams to sign Japanese ace Daisuke Matsuzaka. Matsuzaka was said to throw a mysterious pitch ...

In baseball, we frequently use the term ‘motor preference’ to refer to an athlete’s natural movement patterns—his default setting, if you will. No two human bodies are the same, which means no two ...

Measuring the value of individual pitches has become a bigger and bigger part of player evaluation. While scouts have long graded each pitch they see, there are other elements at play that the naked ...

BOSTON — Tanner Houck threw his cutter only 40 times last year, including 37 times to left-handed batters. He wants a fourth pitch that he uses more often and it’s something he has worked on this ...