CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s a pitch in baseball that has launched careers into the stratosphere and quietly sabotaged others. It’s not the fastball. It’s not the curveball. It’s the cutter — and on the ...

Gilbert has added a changeup that brings his total arsenal to six different pitches in terms of the looks he can present to ...

Following a brief stint with the Mets at the tail end of the 2025 season, Jonah Tong knew he had to add to his pitching arsenal heading into this year’s camp in Port St. Lucie. Primarily a ...

Garrett Crochet, Tarik Skubal, Bryan Woo, Hunter Brown, and Paul Skenes all rank among Just Baseball’s top 10 starting pitchers, and each relies on a second fastball variation at least 15% of the time ...

Tim Kurkjian has spent decades as one of baseball’s most knowledgeable voices. But even the best get caught up in the moment sometimes, and this week on Stugotz and Co., producer Mikey A. dug up proof ...

That’s the critical nuance. The cutter isn’t something you lean on immediately. You introduce it, control it, keep hitters honest about it. Messick made exactly that point himself: you don’t have to ...