There's times where the Seattle Mariners starting rotation better resembles a laboratory run by mad scientists rather than a pitching staff. Despite being arguably the best starting rotation in ...

But a cutter could help Kirby reverse two tendencies that came to a head last August when he gave up three homers per nine innings and had an ERA near seven and everyone wondered what was going on.

From the blade-throwing Cutter to the hard-pounding Stone, the prickly-bodied Needle to the electrifying Spark nearly all of Kirby's classic transformations owe their origin to this late 1992 NES ...