Being a major league pitcher isn't the sweet gig that it used to be. You can't use sticky stuff. You can't take your time. Heck, you can't even rely on over-shifted defenders and small bases to save ...

Kodai Senga, New York Mets' new acquisition's ghost forkball is making quite the buzz as the Japanese pitcher's showcase pitch made a brilliant debut in the MLB. The Mets won their game against the ...

New York Mets fans have been waiting for Kodai Senga to make his big league debut, as the Japanese starter was a prized addition to the rotation that was considered by many to be the best in baseball.

Soon, New York Mets fans and the baseball world will get a firsthand look at Kodai Senga's famous "ghost forkball." This is a pitch that Senga has built a career on. It comes out of his hand looking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Blengino covers all things baseball, with an analytical bent. Let’s go pitch by pitch through the arsenals of all starting ...

Kodai Senga ain’t afraid of no ghost. The right-hander was sensational in his MLB debut on Sunday in Miami after shaking out some of the nerves in the first inning. All eight of his strikeouts in the ...

Mariano Rivera's cutter. Trevor Hoffman's changeup. More recently Jhoan Duran's splinker. Kodai Senga's ghost fork? The new Mets pitcher, acquired from the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks on a $75 million deal ...

The New York Mets may not be playing great on the field this year, but they are certainly doing well in the marketing department. The team went viral on Tuesday when it was circulated that they'd be ...

You've read this before. It wasn't even that long ago. Three weeks ago, BP's own Dan Rozenson wrote about Tyler Clippard and his "split-finger fastball." The quotation marks are because you could ...