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Inside The Room For Tommy John Surgery, Baseball's Most Important Cut
The following is excerpted from The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan, available April 5 from HarperCollins....
Scoundrel Mountain: The Sordid, Untold History Of The Pitching Mound
The modern Baseball pitcher utilizes myriad sleights of hand in his quest to fool and demoralize the slugger. Taunts, curses, incantations. Foreign substances added to the ball, including but not limited to urine and faeces (both human and animal) or reproductive fluids (both human and animal). Divi...
MLB Commish Rob Manfred Offers A Compelling Argument Against The DH
There are persuasive arguments for why the National League should adopt the DH and get rid of pitcher’s batting, but MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred thinks they’re hogwash. ...
Marlins Reliever Carter Capps's Delivery Is Weird As Hell
Sorry, Chad Bradford. There’s a new reliever with a weird delivery in the MLB, and his name’s Carter Capps. ...
Zack Wheeler Pitched With A Torn Tendon Last Season
On Monday, the Mets learned that promising young starter Zack Wheeler has a fully torn elbow ligament, and will miss the entire season. Today it was revealed that the 24-year-old workhorse pitched through pain last year, thanks to a partially torn tendon in that same right elbow. ...
CC Sabathia Gained A Bunch Of Weight, On Purpose
Yankees starter CC Sabathia (the epithet "Yankees ace" is probably long out-of-date, as he's coming off two very rough seasons) reported to camp at 305 pounds, about 30 pounds heavier than he was last spring. That's good, if only because he doesn't look like a stranger. But Sabathia believes his reg...
Madison Bumgarner Is Tired Now
The greatest moments in baseball tend to possess an element of surprise, deciding a game or flipping a narrative on a single play and in a matter of seconds. The adrenaline spike from a home run or a stellar defensive play is memorable for being unexpected, but the drawback is that you can't, in the...
Michael Pineda Was Cheating And No One Cares
"It's just dirt, nothing to see here" was Michael Pineda's general reaction to being accused of glopping up the heel of his hand with some unknown substance in a strong pitching performance against Boston last night. It clearly wasn't dirt. But was it cheating? That depends on whether you listen to ...
Aroldis Chapman "Doing Better" After Taking 110 MPH Liner To Face
Salvador Perez was crying as he left the field, hugged by Eric Hosmer. It was a line drive off the bat of the 23-year-old Royals catcher that struck Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman flush, basically breaking his face....
Brad Penny's Comeback Went About As Poorly As Possible
Let's raise a glass to Brad Penny, and, hell, all the Brad Pennys of the baseball world, those thoroughly passable starters who find the right mix of good teams, tepid consistency (or rather, consistent tepidity), and just enough semi-standout seasons to garner tens of millions of dollars over a len...
Tim Byrdak Posts Handwritten "Reliever For Sale" Ad
Crafty lefty (there are no other kinds of lefty, especially not ones playing at age 40) reliever Tim Byrdak doesn't have a spring training invite. So he took to Twitter to request one:...
Todd Jones Does Not Believe Todd Jones Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
Todd Jones, who had a lengthy and perfectly respectable career as a reliever, has some thought on his appearing on the Hall of Fame ballot:...
The Latest Korean First Pitch Involved A Bow And Arrow
South Korean Olympic archer Ki Bo-Bae entered the Hall of Bizarre Korean First Pitches when she "threw" her pitch using a bow and arrow. She was relatively accurate for someone shooting a baseball-tipped arrow....
A Visual History Of Bizarre Korean First Pitches
Rhythmic gymnast Shin Soo-ji broke the internet last month with this pelvis-bending ceremonial first pitch before a KBO game last month. It's far from the strangest South Korea has to offer....
Infographic: Every Pitch Of The All-Star Game
The folks at Statlas have put together this visualization of each and every pitch thrown at last night's All-Star Game, broken down by type, speed, and result. You can probably guess who invariably threw the same pitch, at nearly the same velocity, every single time....
Jered Weaver Broke His Elbow In A Really Crappy Way
On Sunday, Angels pitcher Jered Weaver hit the deck to avoid a liner up the middle. He immediate came up holding his left, non-throwing arm, and left the game. Today comes word that he fractured his elbow, and will miss 4-6 weeks. ...
Time To Retire The Verducci Effect: What <em>Really</em> Predicts Pitcher Injuries?
Originally published in Baseball Prospectus....
The Cubs' New Japanese Pitcher Accidentally Told The Press He Wouldn't Care If Chicago Traded Him
Today the Cubs officially introduced new signing Kyuji Fujikawa, because any time you can lock up a 32-year-old middle reliever who's never pitched in the MLB for two years and $9.5 million, you have to pull the trigger. Fujikawa met with the media at Wrigley Field, and though he speaks a decent amo...
Ivan Nova Threw A Pitch Right Through His Catcher's Glove
Ivan Nova's season has been a colossal disappointment. Last year he was a breakout star, 16-4 and the Yankees' No. 2 starter, and things were only looking up. Now he's 12-8 with an ERA over 5.00, won't even be in New York's playoff rotation, and looking like yet another of the Yankees' vaunted crop ...