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MLB fastball velocity hits 152.4 km/h, deepening hitters' struggles

Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers’ fastballs are accelerating rapidly, with the league’s average four-seam fastball ...

Tom’s Pitching Lab: The Four-Seam Is Dying and Here is What Pitchers Are Throwing Instead, and Who to Buy.

Sometimes a pitch gets better because a pitcher throws it less The four-seam fastball is the most popular pitch in baseball. It has been every year since pitch tracking began in 2008. In 2026 it still ...
Yahoo! Sports

How Bryan Woo has emerged as the Mariners' anchor with the help of his superpower: a nearly unhittable four-seam fastball

It took some time for Bryan Woo to discover his superpower. Today, Woo’s outlier skill — a four-seam fastball that consistently flummoxes hitters — is on full display every time the right-hander takes ...

Hunter Brown has lost control of his best pitch, the four-seam fastball. 'Just kind of battling it'

Hunter Brown said his four-seam fastball command was off, but the Astros starter still delivered six innings in a loss to ...
Major League Baseball

Why Cole's fastball is in a league of its own

Gerrit Cole only tweeted video of a single pitch. But it's the pitch -- the pitch that defines his transformation into a $300 million ace. One elevated four-seamer, thrown under the backdrop of Yankee ...
The New York Times

A drop in velocity be damned, Brandon Woodruff won’t forsake his fastball — and it’s working

MILWAUKEE — Brandon Woodruff’s demeanor is the same. Shoulder surgery robbed him of time. It didn’t steal the glare. Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy, always quick with a colorful phrase, likens ...