When I arrived at Lookout Landing, the first thing that I did was write about Justus Sheffield. I wanted to write about Yusei Kikuchi, but that article topic had already been claimed. So, instead, I wrote about how Sheffield leaned into the sink of his four-seam fastball and opted to start throwing a sinker instead. I thought it might be something that complements his four-seam fastball, but that hasn’t been the case at all. His four-seamer has been nearly non-existent. And the results have been incredibly mixed.
Consider his numbers as a starter since switching to a sinker:
Justus Sheffield, by time frame
I realize that I just said that the results have been mixed.