Trying to perfect your batting skills can be extremely frustrating when the pitching is erratic — you spend more time waiting for a decent pitch than perfecting your mechanics. A quality pitching ...

Two outs, two strikes. Tying run on second. Gerrit Cole on the bump. You’re pinch-hitting, you tell yourself in the batting cage. The crucial pitch is on the way — just as soon as it matriculates its ...

The Jugs changeup machine (left) and original curveball machine in the company's warehouse. (Joe Mussatto) The warehouse would be quiet if not for the squeaking of tape stretched across the top of a ...

John Paulson, founder of Jugs Sports, created a pitching machine so innovative it made it into the pages of Sports Illustrated in the Jan. 7, 1974 issue. Now, over 40 years later, John’s son Butch, ...