Soroka actually throws his sinker quite a bit at just under 45%. The four-seam variety of his fastball he used just over 12% this past year and sat just under 93 mph. Unlike his sinker, Soroka is more apt to use the four-seamer up in the zone. It’s not a great swing and miss pitch returning a very modest 7.1% swinging K rate. And like you might’ve guessed, it wasn’t nearly as good of a groundball pitch as the sinker with an average launch angle allowed of 19 (the sinker was a true bowling ball with an ALA of -1). Still, it returned a comparatively modest xwOBA of .311 (The sinker allowed an xwOBA of .346).
GIF made by Mark McElroy.
Blurb written by Ryan Amore