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Don’t get too caught up in the ‘We used to have him’ mentality.

Former Pittsburgh Pirates (now Tampa Bay Rays) starter Charlie Morton just salvaged the Rays’ season, at least for the next 24 hours. He pitched five innings of three-hit ball, allowing one earned run with two walks and nine strikeouts.

Its hard not to wonder why this Morton is so different from the Morton you remember in the yellow and black. There are intricacies involved but the reasoning is simple.

He was a pretty heavy sinkerball pitcher early in his career, throwing it as much as 63 percent of the time in his last season with Pittsburgh.