Baseball in 2024 belongs to pitchers. It's not just the .699 league-wide OPS or the average fastball velocity approaching 95 mph. It's the widespread desire for starters and relievers to stroll into a pitching lab and leverage modern technology to learn new pitches in a fraction of the time it used to take. A practice long reserved for only the nerdiest pitchers is now seen as a necessity.
Quite often it's little more than a refresh or retooling of a past offering. Clarke Schmidt has a 2.59 ERA for the New York Yankees thanks to an improved cutter.