The New York Times

MLB’s trendiest pitch, the sweeper, has its problems — but with familiar fixes

The whirly. The hand of God. The sweeper. The slutter. The riding slider. Baseball’s newest pitch has many different names, but mostly one form. It’s a slider that, because of the way the seams are ...
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What is a sweeper? A look at the pitch taking over MLB

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHOENIX (AP) — Bob Melvin was talking about ...
The New York Times

A New(ish) Pitch on the Block

The sweeper — a horizontal slider — had long been lumped in with other breaking balls. Thanks to a change in the Statcast system, it is suddenly its own thing. Clarke Schmidt is one of several Yankees ...
The Hill

What is a sweeper? A look at the pitch taking over MLB

PHOENIX (AP) — Bob Melvin was talking about the improvement of Padres reliever Steven Wilson, when the San Diego skipper dropped in some cool-kid lingo that’s making the rounds in Major League ...