The Pitching Mechanic - February 2008

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Link: Francisco Liriano
Published 4/26/2008 by Kyle at Driveline Mechanics
... I know a lot of the readers are interested in my thoughts on Liriano, and hopefully I’ll get to analyzing his before/after motions myself, but until then, check out what Chris O’Leary had to say on the subject. My thoughts run parallel to his; I like the earlier hand break and the positioning of the elbow. ...

THT Live:How has Liriano’s delivery changed?
Published 4/26/2008 by Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
Chris O'Leary takes a look at Felix Liriano's delivery since returning from Tommy John surgery. (Hat tip: Driveline Mechanics) ...

Liriano’s Change
Published 4/26/2008 by Will Carroll at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered
... There’s a problem in “fixing” a pitcher’s mechanics. In making them safer, you might make them ineffective. Chris O’Leary, a pitching “expert”, has taken a look at ...

What’s Wrong With Francisco Liriano?
Published 4/28/2008 by Alan Hull at Baseball Mastermind
... Another article, written by pitching mechanics expert, Chris O’Leary commented on the above mentioned article, agreeing that the new arm slot would be advantageous for Liriano in the long-term as his pitching side elbow (PAS) is lower at the end of his delivery: ...

Baseball-Intellect: A Second Look at Francisco Liriano
Published 4/29/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
... published a day after Liriano’s first start and in response to a couple of the various articles that came out this past week… There is no one magic mechanical attribute that all of a sudden increases velocity. Pitching mechanics are a sequence of individual actions and when these individual actions are put together with precise efficiency, a pitcher can generate velocity in any number of ways. This is not to mention factors that we honestly have no clue of knowing about; for instance, how strong exactly are those ligaments, tendons, muscles, etc in the pitcher’s ...