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Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports If someone told you that the Yankees would receive important contributions from a 34-year-old reliever pitching in the big leagues for the first time in six years, would you have believed that person? I wouldn’t have, but that’s the beauty about baseball: it’s full of surprises, Cinderella stories, and underdogs. Lucas Luetge, fueled by the Gas Station and its resources and facilities during spring training, managed to significantly increase the spin rate on all his pitches: four-seam fastball, slider, and curveball. Against all odds, he won a roster ...

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Breaking News: Gerrit Cole is good. Really good. What if he could be even better, though? It seems as if Cole and the Yankees asked themselves this very question, because Cole has deployed a shiny new toy so far this season, and it’s making him even more difficult for opposing hitters to square up. Throughout his career, Cole has predominantly thrown a fastball, slider and curveball, along with intermittent use of a changeup. The change was never more than an auxiliary offering for Cole over the years – he never used it more than 10% of the time, and re...

April 7, 2021 There’s this phenomenon in writing where you have an idea and you start putting together the piece. In the midst of writing it, you may take a random break and pop onto your Twitter feed. Whilst scanning said feed, you may run across an article posted with not only your exact premise, but damn near the same title, too. This is what Nick Pollack and Alex Fast at PitcherList have termed “Getting Sullivan’d” based on outstanding Fangraphs alumnus Jeff Sullivan. Well, PitcherList got one back on Fangraphs: I got Sullivan’d… and how! Instead of scrapping it altogether, I ...