Is 2025 really the year of the pitch mix? Story ➡️ https://t.co/BpOZuOXhOU (Answer: Yes. @LanceBroz was right.) Players see the way pitch arsenals are expanding. Or as Yu Darvish says: "If you have all the pitches, you can face any hitter." 🎨

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Shohei Ohtani has four unanimous MVPs in the last five years and the one year he DIDN'T win MVP he had 34 home runs, 11 stolen bases and an .875 OPS as a hitter and a 2.33 ERA and 219 strikeouts in 166 innings as a pitcher

Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 7 of the World Series on zero days' rest

Yoshinobu Yamamoto's splitter induced a ground-ball out 17 times this postseason -- most by any pitcher on one pitch type -- and the last one was the World Series-winning GIDP

Gameday 3D -- George Springer safe at first, but Ernie Clement out at third

Trey Yesavage & Kevin Gausman's splitters vs. LHB this postseason: 52% usage, .068 BA allowed, 54% whiff rate, 42% strikeout rate Shohei Ohtani (Batter Shohei) vs. splitters since he joined the Dodgers: .350 BA / .817 SLG, +11 batting run value (best of any hitter in MLB)

Trey Yesavage, Kevin Gausman, Jeff Hoffman, Seranthony Domínguez... Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Shohei Ohtani... This is going to be the World Series of the splitter. Story ➡️ https://t.co/54LMLSHjZM

Shohei Ohtani brought his splitter back just for the postseason. In the NLDS, he used it to strike out Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper. And tonight, his last 5 strikeouts were on his splitter. Story here (from before the game) ➡️ https://t.co/sO4owCqPO5 ✌️

3D tracking of Max Muncy's 404-foot "grounded into double play"

Swing path for Aaron Judge's HR in ALDS Game 3 77.9 mph bat speed to turn on the 99.7 mph fastball that was 6 inches (2 full baseballs' width) off the plate inside

Stick Figure Aaron Judge off the foul pole (giant ball so you can see it hit the pole 🥎)

Gameday 3D -- Dodgers run the wheel play in the 9th inning of NLDS Game 2

Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage is one of the more unique pitchers you'll see in the playoffs, from his sky-high splitters to his backwards-moving sliders. Story here ➡️ https://t.co/A03BbXgTGH ☁️✌️

Blue Jays rookie Trey Yesavage is one of the more unique pitchers you'll see in the playoffs, from his sky-high splitters to his backwards-moving sliders. Story here ➡️ https://t.co/A03BbXgTGH ☁️✌️

Closer Roki Sasaki -- fastball/splitter overlays vs. Spencer Steer 100.7 mph 4-seamer (10" drop) 87.8 mph / 522 rpm splitter (42" drop), K vs. Gavin Lux 100.3 mph 4-seamer (13" drop) 89.3 mph / 625 rpm splitter (42" drop), K

3D tracking -- Jazz Chisholm Jr. scores the go-ahead run from 1st 29.0 ft/sec sprint speed, 9.16 seconds 1st-to-home

Bat tracking for Ohtani's 2 HR last night 100.4 mph fastball ➡️ 117.7 mph HR with 82.8 mph bat speed 85.9 mph sweeper ➡️ 113.5 mph HR with 80.7 mph bat speed

Shohei Ohtani: 117.7 mph home run off a 100.4 mph fastball from Hunter Greene It's the hardest home run off a 100+ mph pitch in the Statcast era ... by 4 full mph Previous was Rafael Devers 113.7 mph off 100.1 mph from Gerrit Cole on June 27, 2021

Tarik Skubal's 14 strikeouts Can't execute any better

Mason Miller's slider this season... 105 PA decided on sliders 55 K's (52% strikeout rate) 11 hits allowed (.108 BA) ZERO extra-base hits Of the 555 individual MLB pitch types with 100+ PA decided on them this season, Miller's slider was the only one with zero XBH against it