Phillies’ Taijuan Walker leans on his slider and blanks Braves for five innings

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Taijuan Walker returned from the World Baseball Classic and got right back to work on his slider. Walker ...
Baseball Prospectus

Best of BP: What Do 868 Sliders Do to a Hitter’s Season?

Opening day 2023, first inning, two outs and a man on. Teoscar Hernández strolls up for his first at-bat for the Seattle Mariners. Shane Bieber is on the mound for Cleveland. Hernández, the new ...
The New York Times

Sliders: For new Baseball Hall of Fame class, growing the game means rethinking the way in

Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of the game. COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Billy Wagner broke his right arm twice when he was 5 years old.
The New York Times

How Anthony Banda unlocked one of the best sliders in baseball — and found a home

The Athletic has live coverage of the MLB Wild Card Round. Months before he broke his hand and paused the breakthrough season of his career, Anthony Banda hit rock bottom. Baseball had made a habit of ...
Yahoo! Sports

Texas baseball made a change to Jared Spencer's slider. He used it to dominate Georgia

Texas baseball ace Jared Spencer spent most of his life trying to slow down his slider, deploying it as an off-speed complement to a fastball that Spencer can dial up to 97 miles per hour. Max Weiner, ...
Forbes

The Columbus Sliders Finish off their Cinderella Run To The 2025 Major League Pickleball Title

Your 2025 MLP Premier League Champs. From L-R Andrei Daescu, Parris Todd, CJ Klinger, and Lea Jansen. Major League Pickleball (MLP) presented by DoorDash finished off its highly successful 2025 season ...
Forbes

Reds’ Hunter Greene Throws MLB’s Best Slider, And Throws It Often

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Blengino covers all things baseball, with an analytical bent. With spring training camps opening all around us, it’s time to ...