Right knee down is very easy to transition to throw. No matter what, there's a transition time from glove to hand. This is, on average for MLB, 0.73 seconds. The time to go from right knee down to proper foot work is less. So therefore, right knee down is not slowing down the overall pop time. Pop time is 1) glove to hand transfer, plus 2) throwing velocity, plus 3,) accuracy. The transfer is undeniably the most critical followed by accuracy. The least important is throwing velocity. It's important, but much less so.
