He is revered by Bailey and the current cohort of major-league catchers as the godfather of pitch framing — a skill that always existed but hadn’t been quantified and fully leveraged until ...

The ABS challenge system is being tested this spring as MLB ponders a wider plunge. But it could erase pitch framing, one of ...

Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal put on his practice uniform Tuesday morning and jogged to the mound on the TigerTown ...

Pitch framing may soon be frivolous, but the Houston Astros can’t count on such a scenario. It is a focus across these six weeks in South Florida. Only two qualified catchers had worse framing ...

MLB is experimenting with an Automated Ball-Strike challenge system in roughly half of the games this spring training, and ...

With Austin Wells firmly entrenched as the Yankees’ starting catcher, the backup role is wide open heading into the final ...

Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk attempted to frame the pitch into the zone so as to entice home-plate umpire Roberto Ortiz to call it a strike, but Ortiz was not fooled. Scherzer, however ...

In an evolution of the mechanics of baseball, pitchers today visualize tunnels more than the smaller targets like the catcher’s glove.

The ABS challenge system is being tested during spring training games in 2025 and could be a new rule in MLB when the 2026 ...

According to reporter Francys Romero, the Braves made an offer to free agent catcher Yasmani Grandal "about a month ago." ...