Yankees Yankees' Mariano Rivera is more than just his cutter Published: Sep. 20, 2011, 7:45 a.m.

SI's Matthew Schmidt writes that the Yankees should trade for Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase. Clase has the best ...

In order to be the greatest closer ever, Mariano Rivera needed an out pitch. The cut fastball, aka 'the cutter,' was discovered by accident ... or by divine intervention.

COMPLETE MARIANO 602 COVERAGE Call it the evolution of the cutter. Rivera not only made the pitch famous, he made it the pitch of the new century.

Maybe some of Rivera's heaters moved like that inadvertently, and maybe those are the ones that Girardi saw as precursors to his cutter.

Mariano Rivera didn’t just become the first player unanimously elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame, he may be the first to play a significant role in each of his fellow inductees’ careers ...

And if they do, it's not going far. Rarely does Rivera's cutter find the barrel of the bat. For right-handed batters, the majority of Rivera's cutters find the end of the bat.

But Mariano Rivera was out there early Monday in the visitors’ pen in Toronto, working hard with pitching coach Dave Eiland to restore the muscle memory that produces his fabled cutter.

Mariano Rivera says he has tried to teach people how to throw his cut fastball but he can't because it is a gift from God that he can't explain.

Yankees legend Mariano Rivera talks cutter, playoff pressure, mound visits and more The legendary closer talked to CBS Sports on the occasion of the MLB's annual reliever awards ...

Mariano Rivera's cut fastball is widely regarded as the best pitch of all-time. The New York Yankees legend showed you how to throw it over the weekend.