What Is a Sweeper? A New Pitch Enters MLB’s Lexicon

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.

TYLER KEPNER
Author: TYLER KEPNER

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