quote:Originally posted by Doc_K:
An oversight or what? Just trying to figure this out cause on your site you say he's got bad mechanics, yet now you're saying he's got good mechanics???
I need to update that page.
Basically, I have modified my view on Scapular Loading. Initially, I bought into Mike Marshall's idea that the elbows should never go behind the shoulders. Then I started to see pictures like this one of Greg Maddux...
...and this one of Nolan Ryan...
...and this one of Randy Johnson...
...and many others in which the PAS elbows of pitchers without serious shoulder problems are obviously going behind their shoulders.
I have since come to believe that Dr. Marshall is wrong about this and have modified my opinion and have come to believe that the problem is when the elbows go both above and behind the level of the shoulders like Mark Prior is doing in the photo below...
As a result, I have also removed Dontrelle Willis from that list...
...because, while his elbows do get a bit high earlier on in his delivery, I believe that what he is doing in the photo above should be safe.