Tatsuya Imai, Houston's offseason signing from Japan, doesn't really have a specific way he throws his slider but it unique in MLB.

Perhaps the newest of the breaking pitches is one called the slider, which almost every pitcher uses these days. The late George Blaeholder is generally credited with the development of the pitch in ...

A right-handed pitcher's slider, for pretty much all of baseball history, has moved the same direction. It starts away from a lefty batter and moves toward them. Or it starts in on a righty hitter and ...

Travis Sawchik is a FiveThirtyEight staff writer. His new book “The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players,” co-authored with The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh, ...

The Slider is one of the most popular pitches in the history of baseball. Many pitchers have tried to perfect the skill of throwing the perfect slider, however, not many have succeeded. This list will ...

Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. On June 1, holding a 4–3 lead in the ...