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His sinker use against lefties has gone up from 15.2% in 2021 to 18.8% in 2022, while his sinker use against righties has gone up from 13% last season to 21.4% this year.

The Dodgers aren’t bringing back the sinker as their overarching philosophy. But it’s proved to be an ideal enhancement, even for pitchers who throw high velocity above the belt.

A sinker and a slider are usually going to diverge very little vertically, but a whole lot horizontally. The latter is easier to pick up, and (while more likely to generate ground balls or weak ...

Britton's sinker stands at 29 percent whiffs per swing, and 77 percent grounders per ball in play. It's an extreme version of an extreme pitch, which is why Britton can use it almost exclusively ...

Foley throws the sinker nearly 70 percent of the time. “Once I started throwing that, I got a lot of weak contact, and it was a pitch I was confident in,” Foley said.

Throwing his sinker more allowed righties to hit .250 against it, considerably higher than the .182 in the first 54 games. Much of that damage was mitigated by the way deGrom found a balance for ...

The sinker’s run value — a metric by Baseball Savant that quantifies the impact of a specific pitch — is minus-13, which ranks as the second-most valuable pitch by any major leaguer this season.

This season, Holmes is indeed throwing the sinker almost all the time, increasing his usage of the pitch from 59 percent in 2021 to 80.2 percent in 2022. His ground ball rate has jumped to 83.1 ...

If a righty is sitting on a sinker, waiting for the ball to veer in, Wang can keep him off balance with a slider that travels anywhere from 86-90 mph and breaks the other way, even though, as ...