Sean Manaea is in his 10th season in the majors and still was taken aback by the movement on Nolan McLean’s signature pitch ...

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“The sweeper, as the name implies, sweeps laterally more than a conventional slider, which will tend to move but several inches less than the sweeper.” Visually, it’s easy to catch on.

The sweeper is just the latest example of weaponized analytics. It's a pitch that technically has been around for decades, but only recently have clubs figured out how to hone it and teach it.

The sweeper had the lowest in-zone rate among fastballs and breaking balls last year, and can be hard to harness, even for someone who has thrown it for a long time.

A lawn sweeper is a mechanical yard care device made to pick up leaves, twigs and other debris from your yard. It does the work of a person with a rake in a fraction of the time and with far less ...

Major League Baseball’s Statcast system, which feeds information to scoreboards and television screens, has quietly introduced the sweeper and the slurve as new pitch types this season.

Moon Bo-kyung pushed a 135km sweeper at the first pitch, which became a three-run home run over the left fence. 0-4. The 135km sweeper on the first pitch was driven toward the center and was ...