MLB

American  

abbreviation

1. Major League Baseball: the organization that oversees and regulates the major leagues, and affiliated minor leagues, of professional baseball in the United States and Canada.

2. Maritime Labor Board.

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Example Sentences

Japanese pitchers migrating to MLB, including Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, have helped popularize the splitter.

From The Wall Street Journal

By 2016, just 1.4% of pitches thrown across MLB were splitters.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s an illusion,” former MLB pitching coach Rick Peterson said of the splitter.

From The Wall Street Journal

That line of thinking became so prevalent that many MLB organizations stopped teaching the splitter altogether.

From The Wall Street Journal

Glenn Fleisig, the director of biomechanics research at the American Sports Medicine Institute and an adviser to MLB, said that modern technology had made it clear that the splitter puts less torque on the elbow than throwing a fastball.

From The Wall Street Journal