Bob Melvin was talking about the improvement of Padres reliever Steven Wilson, when the San Diego skipper dropped in some cool-kid lingo that's making the rounds in Major League Baseball these days.

Baseball is in an incredibly interesting spot. While the “three true outcomes” of home runs, walks, and strikeouts are more apparent than ever before, we have also hit the Golden Age of not only ...

It has been reported that the sweeper is a new pitch being employed by some of the top pitchers in the MLB. In a year when so much has changed, from universal DH to Pitchcom technology, it is not ...

It’s like baby-sitting a room filled with 3-year-olds. Turn your head for a second, and there’s a jailbreak, something gone wrong. Monday morning I was in NYU Hospital undergoing aortic heart valve ...

The sweeper — a horizontal slider — had long been lumped in with other breaking balls. Thanks to a change in the Statcast system, it is suddenly its own thing. Clarke Schmidt is one of several Yankees ...