Rob Friedman

Rob Friedman, also known by the moniker PitchingNinja, is an American baseball analyst, social media personality and author. He is known for his pitching GIF and videos on Social media 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. A licensed attorney and former high school baseball coach, Friedman also founded the geolocation software company Digital Envoy. As of August 2026, his PitchingNinja accounts had over 575,000 followers on X account and over 710,000 followers on Instagram. The PitchingNinja account has been referred to as "one of baseball’s most famous social media accounts". Friedman also has approximately 325,000 subscribers on the PitchingNinja YouTube channel. He is the author of Unhittable: How Technology, Mavericks, and Innovators Engineered Baseball's New Era of Pitching Dominance.