It's not just the Kershaw slider that vexes him, either. "I've been trying to throw a sweeper for three years," Skubal said, "but I can't get the ball to sweep." Stories like these, of the pitches ...

Even if we remove sweepers and stick with the "regular" slider, we’re still seeing twice as many sliders with a foot-plus break as we did a decade ago. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to ...