Baseball, it’s often said, is a game of adjustments. First, pitchers started throwing harder than ever, with the average velocity on a four-seam fastball climbing from about 92 mph at the start of ...

Several of the leading pitchers in this year’s postseason make their living with a cut fastball, most notably Roy Halladay and Mariano Rivera. The list of playoff pitchers who have the cutter as an ...

The 2018 Dodgers have a habit of bending pitch classifications. First came Alex Wood’s “slider.” Wood throws the pitch with a knuckle-curveball grip, and for years the pitch taggers at PitchInfo ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Blengino covers all things baseball, with an analytical bent. Spring training camps have opened all around us, so it’s time ...

Tim Hudson throws a cutter. Kenley Jansen throws a cutter. But are we really talking about the same pitch? It wasn’t that long ago that features popped up across the baseball world heralding the rise ...

WASHINGTON — For Diamondbacks left-hander Madison Bumgarner, the cutter is not a new pitch. What is new — relatively speaking, at least — is how effective the pitch has been for him through three ...