Tanner Bibee is another second-tier pitcher with a higher ceiling. He checked the strikeout box last year, giving him 56 ...

Philadelphia Phillies prized pitching prospect Andrew Painter is healthy again. The right-hander is expected to make his long ...

Sabathia was a 17-year-old from Vallejo, California, when Willis and Burlington Indians skipper Joe Mikulik picked him up from the Raleigh airport in North Carolina after Cleveland made him the No ...

Willis, now in his second stint in Cleveland, was coaching in the Indians’ minor-league system ... and I ended up with this 83 mile an hour slider out of that bullpen. From the second half ...

We continue to rank the top starting pitchers heading into the 2025 fantasy baseball season. Fantasy on SI breaks down the next tier of pitchers: 71 – Yu Darvis ...

The baseline of an ace pitcher was 14 wins with a sub-3.00 ERA and more than 200 strikeouts. The target for a second-tier ace last season was 13 wins with a 3.4 ...

The big lefthander who pitched for the Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers and New ... taught me how to throw a slider, how to throw a change up, so literally my whole arsenal, everything from ...

We were in the same (AL Central) division when he played back then for the Cleveland Indians. I had to be aggressive ... 98 miles per hour with a big backdoor slider, so you had to be early ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Big Four at the back ... Obviously, a guy who back in 1998 when the when the then Indians brought in a 17 year old CC Sabathia and sent him to Burlington to to begin ...

The trade, which sent prospects Matt LaPorta, Zach Jackson, Rob Bryson and a player to be named later to Cleveland ... had mentioned to me that the Indians were on LaPorta during the draft.

While with the Cleveland Indians (now known as the Cleveland Guardians ... “I come out of that bullpen with this 82-83 mile per hour slider,” Sabathia said. “And I'm like, ‘Oh, this ...