“It’s a pitch that he throws that not a lot of guys throw. And that’s the screwball,” explained Joe Noga on the Cleveland Baseball Talk Podcast. The screwball — a pitch that breaks in the opposite ...

Relief pitchers, who infrequently face the same batter more than once in a game, have historically succeeded with the help of one or two pitch types that are thrown with maximum effort. In this ...

Whether Giulianelli becomes the next Cleveland pitching success story or just another minor league flameout, his journey will be worth watching. The raw materials are tantalizing — elite velocity, a ...