PITTSBURGH — Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Chad Kuhl is a sinkerball pitcher. Sometimes, when things are going so well or he gets a bit too amped up, he overthrows his sinker and it, well, doesn’t.
The topic has been well covered on this site. There was this story from the first week of the season on that subject. It cropped up last year, as well.
But there might be a bit more heaped on if those issues continue this season. To increase his pitch arsenal and get more swings and misses, Kuhl has been working on including an elevated, four-seam fastball into his repertoire.