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 ...
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Why a young Guardians lefty is developing a pitch that’s also the sport’s most dangerous double-edged sword
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 ...
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Logan Gilbert’s cutter might survive spring training
It started out as a joke: while Cal Raleigh is away, his pitchers will play. Cal’s clubhouse chair wasn’t even cold before Logan Gilbert made a start where he was throwing his cutter and sinker, two ...
Spring Training is always a testing ground for new pitches. It seems like every pitcher is trying something new with their arsenal. The regular season is another story. New pitch experiments from the ...
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 ...
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