His arms are flat and hands downward when his landing foot makes contact. Thats very bad mechanics as it indicates slow hip rotation and poor coordination. All that means is instead of his body core pitching the ball with his arm along for the ride, all the stress of his fastball and breaking balls is going into that arm. Mark my words he'll have TJ in the next 3 years.
As a Pirates fan right now, 5-14-2024, I would like to ask anyone what is the sauce that makes this team start hot, very hot, at the press cook top of these seasons and then let shadows swerve them?
Hey Derek, what have you brought to the buc’s?? Fundamentals??? Nope!! Hitting??? Nope?? As a former hitting coach and your current hitting coach blow. The whole approach suck’s. The top thirty hitting prospects we have are all under .200. Great job!! And you flipping lineups. What an ass. Quit listening to the computer.
These guys are clueless. That arm won't last because his mechanics suck. Every arm that's been blown out over the past 25 years was the result of poor mechanics and a lack of whole-body chiropractic. Skenes is throwing not pitching. He needs to meet with Nolan Ryan or Randy Johnson, fast!
If only it were so simple...I'm very surprised MLB hasn't contacted you to solve the arm injury epidemic. Clearly, it's that cut and dry, and there's no outliers to refute your point. I imagine your knowledge of biomechanics is profound, right? 🤡
the irony of you talking about others being clueless. You dont provide any substance or specifics, you just make a false claim and throw a few big names out like it means you know a damn thing. Skenes uses his entire body and doesnt let his arm fly out like crazy, could he be refined more? probably, but there are far worse mechanics than his.
@@baseballworldwide9439 It is simple actually. If you can't see it, maybe get out of the basement and actually play some baseball for a few years as a pitcher and get a UCL Injury then fix it without a ridiculous surgery that even Tommy John is against. MLB is a heavily medically-sponsored industry and pitchers on the shelf are appeased by still getting paid. MLB is raking cash and doesn't care about the arms. As long as they convince fools otherwise, it'll roll on unabated.
Moatly enjoy Costas and find him trustworthy - but he's wrong about working alone. For many years, Jerry Doggett was his on air partner. A swing and a miss...
This is great for the people that for what ever reason want the game to finish as soon as possible. As for protecting stealing I would think this would make that much easier. The more tech you throw at a solution LOL no pun intended you open yourself to other holes in security. The main goal is making the game faster I think and it will do that unfortunately. Not a fan of what the game has become in recent years. People will continue to steal signs and eventually you will have to have a sign for the sign. So fast ball=curve and high outside=down the middle etc. Pretty much trying to make a substitution cryptography but even that isn't safe for long. Lets just cut the game to 3 innings and if you're tied at that point just have the active pitcher call a coin flip following NFL style team determination. Just how much faster does it actually need to be?
Posey have 3 World Series, an mvp and a batting title as a catcher. But is 1500 hit, 150 home runs less than 400 doubles and not even 1000 rbi really a hof?
Doc and Darling were the best 1-2 punch ever. I took it all for granted growing up thinking those Mets would last forever. Thank you for my childhood and all the memories. I need a Delorean so I can go back to ‘86. Tonight.
My sons and I were at Yankee Stadium for Cals last appearance there. He hit a home run and the Orioles won the game. There are certain players who are so classy that if you don't like them you are not really a baseball fan. Al Kaline, Sandy Koufax, Tony Gwynn, Steve Garvey, Don Mattingly and ,of course, Cal are among that group. I am a Yankee fan since 1956( Mantle's Triple Crown year) and always enjoyed watching Cal Ripken Jr. play baseball.
1:50 my guess is he still has mild “pushing arm action”. I think about pulling instead of pushing when throwing the baseball. i feel like i dont have to use my pec muscles much when throwing, its all from the torso/obliques. the arm will come forward naturally because of deceleration and momentum, not because of your pec muscles pulling it. the pec muscle actually also pronates the shoulder. so if you keep your scap retracted like youre pulling something then it will prevent the pecs from pushing the arm forward but still allowing the pec to pronate the ball, that is called co-contraction of the rotator cuff muscles which will keep your shoulder stable and centered protecting it from injuries. Theres also contractions in your forearm and elbow muscles that protect your elbow, gripping the baseball tight can tire out the foream muscles faster which means it has less strength to pull the forearm to the upper arm bone and that basically keeps the forearm bone from swinging sideways and if does swing too much, the UCL will get overstretched and tear. regarding the splitter: a splitter with a really wide grip needs you to stay loose on the grip at release of the ball, that means barely any resistance on your fingers which reduce the instinct of your forearm muscles to contract, so less protection on the UCL. I think it should be called a forkball if the grip is that wide. joint stability is crucial and co-contraction can really make a joint stable but it requires a lot of motor skill to do, although most of the times when a muscle gets stretched over its range of motion, it will instinctively contract which can make co-contraction easier to do if you’ve already engaged the opposite muscles then rely on physics/momentum to stretch the other muscle. Think about it like trying to swing your leg forward/backward at the same time, its impossible, the leg just stays stationary because youre pulling with the muscles on both sides. but because because of that, the muscles can pull the bone securely to the socket which is ideal in the shoulder because the shoulder’s socket is really shallow, if it slips or rotates uncentered from that socket it can result in torn rotator cuff or labrum. TLDR/summary: training pronation and grip strength/endurance and learning to pull instead of push protects your arm. read articles around “baseball flexor-pronator mass” if you cant understand me, and attachment point of muscles to bones, you can then build your own theories on which muscles protect what.
I agree that Vin was great with the big moments, but he was even better with the average game. Vin gave you a reason to listen to an August game with the Dodgers seven games out of first. You still would listen to him every night.
