Matt Waldron’s knuckleball is probably the Majors’ hardest pitch to catch. It also might be the hardest pitch for umpires to call. And it’s a pretty darn good example of what ABS is for in the first ...

This sports news got our attention this week: According to The New York Times, "Niekro's assignment is to help the Orioles transform three pitchers into full-time knuckleballers: [Zach] Clark, 30, now ...

Believe it or not, most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading ...

Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern didn't know much about baseball before the 2011 major league season. The co-directors of the documentary "Knuckleball!" had different views of the pitch that would be ...

The knuckleball can be almost impossible to hit, and can extend a player’s career by years. So why do so many in the major and minor leagues distrust the pitch? When Kevin Pucetas, a minor-league ...

This piece originally appeared on The Walrus. STANDARD baseball pitch—slider, curveball, fastball—seems to slavishly follow the laws of physics, making it possible to predict where a ball will go and ...

Flatter pitches, fatter bats, shorter boundaries, fielding restrictions, free hits and Powerplays have all resulted in higher batting averages and faster scoring rates. Not that long ago, anything ...

Knuckleballs are mostly associated with baseball in the United States, but this devilishly unpredictable ball motion also shows up in soccer, cricket, and volleyball. Yet it’s never seen in other ...

Andrew Tye's recent debut in the Indian Premier League was spectacular. Representing the Gujarat Lions against the Rising Pune Supergiants, Tye captured 5 for 17, including a hat-trick, from his ...

It has become the mark of football's great freekick takers - the ability to strike the ball so it moves unpredictably through the air, leaving goalkeepers standing. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo and ...