Masataka Yoshida began his rehab assignment with Triple-A Worcester on Wednesday, but during pregame warmups he got some work ...

Mark Leiter Jr. relieved Rodón to face Myles Straw, who hit a ground ball to the hole at shortstop, where Anthony Volpe made ...

Yandy Díaz singles on a ground ball to third baseman Ramón Urías. Danny Jansen to 2nd.

Look at the rate of ground balls hit—it has gone down despite the field opening up. And the increase in ground ball hits is so negligible it equates to one extra ground ball base hit every 15.8 ...

Since the beginning of time, scouts have lusted over power pitchers who make hitters look silly with hard fastballs and nasty hooks. However, the durability and efficiency of pitchers like Atlanta ...

This year’s 46.3% ground ball percentage is a record high, and the 1.53 groundball-to-flyball ratio is the first time there have been one and a half times as many balls on the ground as airborne.

On ground balls in 2016, big league hitters had a .239 average and .258 slugging percentage. On line drives and fly balls combined, they hit .411 with a .785 slugging percentage.

Research on ground-ball rates in the past by Jeff Zimmerman and Eric Seidman and Matt Swartz showed us that ground-ball rate’s effect on ERA is not linear — basically you needed to have better ...

Before delving into the cream of the crop of the leading ground-ball pitchers in Major League Baseball, let’s first answer the questions for the uninitiated: What’s a ...

We had the dead-ball era, then the steroids era. Now, welcome to the ground-ball era in Major League Baseball. The rate of 1.52 ground balls for every fly ball is the highest since at least 1987 ...