"There are too many balls. Even the fielders who threw like yesterday get tired. You can change positions." It is the greatest virtue of a starting pitcher to fill five innings somehow. However, what ...

PHOENIX – When AJ Smith-Shawver first tried to pick up a slider by himself, he had trouble throwing it hard. He tried to spin it like a sideways curveball. “I don’t know,” he said. “I didn’t really ...

"A little bit of both," Rocker said Wednesday at Globe Life Field. It plays that way too. Rocker's "slider" carried an average of 42 vertical inches of drop in his major league debut against the ...