Sure, sinkers are being thrown less now than at any point in the pitch tracking era, but the ones that are being thrown are more valuable than at any point in this era, too.
Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee descends from Korean baseball royalty, but when he made the jump to MLB last season, he didn’t have the same kind of hype as other international superstars. And then he got hurt. But 2025 is a much different story.
Seven pitchers combined to throw the ball 230 times on Friday night in Toronto, but none of them touched Addison Barger’s fastest throw on the radar gun — all of them from right field.