Archive for the 'Pitching' Category

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I wasn’t a big fan of Lance Niekro: First Baseman, but this is something I can get behind: Twenty years have passed since a Niekro threw a knuckleball in a major-league game. Lance Niekro, the longtime Giants infield prospect, now hopes to become the next to keep the family craft alive. Niekro, who as recently […]

Toon in every Wednesday!

Before we can create a tool to identify injured pitchers, we have to study pitchers who are injured yet still pitching.

Scott Boras says Oliver Perez deserves a huge payday. Does he?

Did the Braves end up with an enormously talented front line pitcher or the headache Ozzie Guillen has been complaining about for the past few seasons?

TUCK! toon goodness now weekly!

There are about a million soft-tossing lefties out there, but only one Jamie Moyer. What separates him from the pack?

How much control does a pitcher really have? Perhaps not as much as we’re led to believe.

This past season was mostly a lost one for John Smoltz and the Braves. Let’s look at what he might have left for a 2009 campaign.