He tweaked the grip of his slider, too. With the Tigers, Flaherty commands three great pitches in his fastball, slider and curveball. He doesn't throw his cutter anymore, which allows him to focus ...

Months later and entirely apart, Yennier Cano also fumbled around the seams of the baseball and settled on a new grip. Cano ...

Olivia Dunne, girlfriend of Pittsburgh Pirates star Paul Skenes, recently jested that she was the one who taught the pitcher to throw a cutter ... a two-seam fastball into his repertoire.

“That’s being in the zone with my cutter and sweeper. Then I have the fastball in my back pocket. That’s the learning and understanding that helped me.” A product of the University of ...

This cutter can be added to his current pitch mix, which includes an upper-90s, 100 MPH fastball, a splinker and a slider. The Pirates finished last in the National League Central last season and ...

“That’s being in the zone with my cutter and sweeper. Then I have the fastball in my back pocket. That’s the learning and understanding that helped me.” A product of the University of Kansas, ...