Has anyone had or has your son ever had a biomechanical evaluation? If so was it productive in helping pointing out areas that could be potential injury issues and/or was it helpful in becoming more efficient in your/his pitching mechanics?
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Sort of. A local orthopedic surgery group is doing a study of young athletes engaged in throwing (pitcher, catchers, QB's, etc). They are trying to determine if early review, followed up with directed exercise (specific for an issue they have) , can lead to a lower incidence of injury. My son is a part of this study (through a pitching program he was involved in) and was evaluated (some very minor damage from shoulder impigment) and given specific exercises to do and training in how to perform them. He periodically receives a questionaire to fill in about his season(s). My son feels the information is helpful and the exercises usefull.
We run a biomechanics lab here with four high-speed cameras, wearable motion trackers, and soon will have wearable EMG sensors to measure muscle activity.
Personally, I think it's most effective when used for evaluating specific training methods, not necessarily a pitcher's mechanics - unless we're talking about a guy who is throwing 90+ who needs very small, refined changes. And even then you need constant video evaluation to check up on them.
So a single-shot biomechanical video analysis may not be the most important investment. And I say this as a guy that runs a lab! 
