Rob Friedman (baseball analyst)

Rob Friedman (born c. 1966), also known by the moniker PitchingNinja, is an American baseball analyst and social media personality known for his pitching gifs and videos on Twitter and for creating social media resources for baseball recruiting and scouting. He is an analyst for Major League Baseball, Peacock, Fox Sports, NESN and ESPN. Friedman coached High School baseball and is also a licensed attorney. Friedman also founded Geolocation Software company Digital Envoy. As of July 2024, Friedman had over 500,000 followers on his PitchingNinja Twitter account and over 500,000 followers on Instagram. Friedman's PitchingNinja account has been referred to as "one of baseball’s most famous social media accounts". Friedman also has over 230,000 subscribers on the PitchingNinja YouTube channel.