Earlier this spring, while retelling the story of how he first discovered his unconventional sinker grip, Stroman was fiddling with a baseball, curling his fingers into a changeup grip.

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What the Mets and some teams around the league are doing is dusting off a pitch that had attracted cobwebs.

Between the end of his time at college and reporting to Pirates camp, he started to fool around with his sinker grip in catch play. Soon, the "splinker" was born.

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Stroman’s unique sinker grip is essentially a one-seamer, with the ball rotated off a more traditional finger placement. It felt comfortable, so he took it from his couch into catch the next day.

Skenes said he used his normal sinker grip for the "splinker" but altered the release point between being selected No. 1 in the 2023 MLB Draft and reporting to the Pirates.