Spin Rates Don’t Matter for Sinkers

Jan 15 2022 by Viva El Birdos

 
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At least, maybe not as much as how that spin is applied.

It’s been a bit since I’ve continued the spin rate series and part of the reason for that is that the next couple of pitches I planned on looking at didn’t have clear connections between their spin rates and the quality of the pitch, at least going by what we can see on Baseball Savant. One of those pitches was today’s topic: the sinker.

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