How baseball got a grip about splitter risks Kevin Gausman, the Toronto Blue Jays’ All-Star who wields one of the game’s best and most used splitters, knows all about the old splitter stigma.

Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal and right-hander Kenta Maeda were talking Sunday morning about splitters on the TigerTown backfields.

The Chicago Cubs’ Shota Imanaga is one of only 16 left-handed starters in the last 17 seasons to throw a splitter, a pitch he is using to generate whiffs at an incredible rate.

While the radar gun draws ample eyes when it flashes 102 mph for Orioles relief pitcher Félix Bautista's four-seam fastball, the splitter has emerged as his almost-unhittable secondary pitch.

Whereas in his entire career previously he adopted a conventional reverse-overlap putting grip, Hogan began experimenting with a 10-finger, split-handed, baseball grip.

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When scouting Imanaga, the usage and effectiveness of his splitter was something president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer and the Cubs hoped would translate well against major-league hitters.

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How baseball got a grip about splitter risks Kevin Gausman, the Toronto Blue Jays’ All-Star who wields one of the game’s best and most used splitters, knows all about the old splitter stigma.