As professional baseball sees another high-profile elbow injury with Toronto Blue Jays right-hander José Berríos having ...

At any level, a pitcher should not also be a catcher for his team as the combination of these two positions results in far more throwing than is required at other positions. Pitchers who also played ...

Every fastball asks a small ligament in the elbow to do a job it was never built to handle. That strain has become one of baseball’s defining costs, with torn ulnar collateral ligaments, or UCLs, ...

In modern baseball, spin rate stands out among pitching metrics, but its true value lies in its effects on performance and injury risk. Spin rate — the speed of baseball rotation in revolutions per ...

Since the Washington Nationals contemplated shutting down their best young starter before a postseason run more than a decade ago, prevailing wisdom around Major League Baseball has centered on the ...