The Detroit Tigers have signed right-hander Kenny Serwa to a minor league contract. The 27-year-old isn't like most pitchers. He throws the fastest knuckleball ever recorded in baseball history, ...
Even though Spring Training is long behind us, we have no reason to stop looking into pitchers throwing new pitches. In fact, this is when the fun begins. Many pitchers will test new pitches in the ...
San Diego Padres pitcher Matt Waldron is part of a dying breed. When he made his big league debut last season, he was the MLB first pitcher since 2019 to have a knuckleball as part of his arsenal.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Guardians will send eight prospects to the Arizona Fall League in October, including former first-round draft pick Daniel Espino, who hasn’t pitched in a minor league game in ...
There aren't that many knuckleballers floating around. I mean, there is R.A. Dickey, this 'generation's' Cy-Young-holding, hard-knuckling pitch-face king, but the number of active knuckleballers in ...
Seahawks, 49ers GMs both had on-camera moments they'd like to forget thanks to ESPN A year after the Palisades and Eaton ...
It started with a conversation with his father. When Kenny Serwa was 9 years old he expressed interest in throwing breaking pitches, but his father discouraged the experiment on the account of his ...
One of the opening weekend highlights of the ongoing TriBeCa Film Festival in New York was Saturday's outdoor screening of the new documentary Knuckleball!, which tells the stories of (to date) the ...
Russell Martin was sitting at his locker in the Blue Jays' clubhouse, talking about catching the knuckleball, when former major-league catcher Sal Butera, a Jays coach, joined the conversation. Butera ...
A good knuckleball is beauty in the absence of motion. So much of baseball, of sports, of life is an exhibition of constant movement, perpetual motion. Things happen, and when they do, they are ...