This builds on earlier work by the NZSeaRise project, which measured vertical land movement for every two kilometres of New Zealand’s coastline. Our study uses a significantly higher resolution (every ...

“Guys have trained different. They can hit hard fastballs with vertical movement. We started flipping in curveballs early. We had to pitch backwards, where we had to get to fastballs a different wa ...

SSW is the concept of using the orientation of a baseball’s seams to create movement by disrupting airflow in its flight path rather than through spin. Throwing a sinker with lots of vertical ...

SSW is the concept of using the orientation of a baseball’s seams to create movement by disrupting airflow in its flight path rather than through spin. Throwing a sinker with lots of vertical drop ...

He pairs that with an improved changeup that had the highest whiff rate of any of his pitches in 2024 and a curveball that he added in 2023 and has plenty of vertical movement with good command. He ...

In addition, Argentina’s players usually had their bodies oriented as to approach the man in possession instead of performing vertical movements to attack the last line of defence. This meant that ...

Although his cutter does operate more as a gyro slider with its upper 80s velocity and near 0 vertical movement. Rasmussen throws his hard stuff more than ¾ of the time and dialed that up even more ...