Something wasn’t sitting quite right with Logan Gilbert’s sinker.
He started throwing the pitch midway through 2022, shortly after Robbie Ray brought his back into the mix and then helped work on two-seamers with both Gilbert and George Kirby. Ray’s was a trick that helped salvage his season by giving batters a third pitch to think about. (Though the final sinker he threw that season somewhat famously did not go great.) Kirby’s was a revelation, with an astonishing amount of run and some decent carry turning it into basically his best pitch. But Gilbert’s, and I say this as one of Gilbert’s biggest fans, was more of a stinker than a sinker.