When Bruce Sutter began experimenting with the split-fingered fastball, he wasn't looking for a path to Cooperstown. He was just hoping to save his career. "I wouldn't be here without that pitch," ...

Roger Craig, a well-traveled major league baseball player and coach who became a pitching guru in the 1980s teaching the merits of the split-fingered fastball, has died. The San Francisco Giants ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (CBS) - Zack Wheeler already has a repertoire of pitches he can use in any given start, but the Opening Day starter for the Philadelphia Phillies is working on a new pitch that has ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — San Francisco Giants right-hander Jordan Hicks has thrown 236 fastballs right down the middle in his major-league career. There are different terms that people use for fastballs ...

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When Bruce Sutter began experimenting with the split-fingered fastball, he wasn’t looking for a path to Cooperstown. He was just hoping to save his career. “I wouldn’t be here without that pitch,” ...