Posts Tagged ‘spin’

Best of BP: The Pitch That Couldn’t Slow Down

If you’re going to blame one thing and one thing only for the recent spate of pitcher injuries, it would have to be Jim Creighton.

The Pitch That Couldn’t Slow Down$

MLB’s Crackdown Might Be Working: Spin Is Down$

The Science of Spin: How Sticky Stuff Spikes RPMB

Prospectus Feature: Challenging the Citadel of Spin$

Measuring Pitching with TrackMan: The Secrets of Fastball Spin

Former MLB pitcher Zach Day explains why velocity isn’t a fastball’s only important characteristic.

Baseball ProGUESTus: Scouting with PITCHf/x

The advent and adoption of the PITCHf/x system has changed the way we scout pitchers, and more advances are still to come.