quote:Originally posted by TPM:
I kind of tried to cover many of our discussions that we have had here with GBM's doomsday.
One question, why are you opposed to a pitcher throwing from same slot? What would be the necessity to do so?
My understanding has always been that every pitch should appear as if it were a FB. If a pitcher throws from different slots (different pitches) the better hitters recognize this. One can get away with it it as a youth pitcher, in HS, maybe college, but the buck usually stops there.
So, in reality you are saying if the pitcher has 3 pitches they all should come from different slots? How does that work?
TPM seems wholly unaware that-YES, even in the big leagues, on occasion, there are a few pitchers who change arm slots and can still throw all of their pitches from a different slot. Is it a normal thing that "all pitchers" do? NO, but it is true that even in the highest level of baseball competition you still have a few pitchers who are able to, and occasionally do change arm slots during a game.
TPM still refuses to believe this phenomenon and has since decryed the doom of poor GBM as being a heretic!