Archive for the 'Pitching' Category

We’ll never again see the likes of Oakland’s iron-man starting staff.

Even the best catchers miss some.

Dennis Eckersley was a Hall of Fame closer. But have we been underrating him as a starter?

The pitch is highly utilized but remains hard for hitters to handle.

Hoffman shaped the landscape for relievers in ways we’re still seeing today.

On hot afternoons, there was little relief for the pitchers of 1940. Here are some of their stories.

The manager’s taking him out? No-no.

A brief history of the game’s legacy of rule-bending.

What have the workloads of the game’s most promising amateurs looked like?