Looking to see if anyone can help me identify this type of pitch. Son throws it as a fastball with late break in or our. My guess anything from a slider, cutter, two seamer. Son can't explain what he is doing since thats the way he has been throwing since age 12 in little league (Never had a pitching coach).
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I'd call it middle finger heavier than his first finger
I'd call it a slurve. That's not really sharp late break like a slider has, but it looks like he is supinating his wrist at delivery - which you don't do with a curve.
I am certainly no mechanics expert, but I'd get him to a pitching coach that can get his lower half involved. I know he was in the stretch, but he is throwing all arm. Doing that, and throwing a slurve isn't a good combination. You need to get the lower body involved more in order to lessen the strain on the elbow/shoulder.
Slurve, and I agree with Rob.
No offense but this is a classic case of a young pitcher learning how to get outs with a mechanically poor breaking pitch. Every pitch he threw was a slurve with a lot of wrist action, which works now but he will never pitch in college unless he develops a fast ball.
Get him a coach who knows how to teach him to use his body and let the arm come along for the ride. Nearly every kid who threw like this when my son was younger had arm issues when they got to HS. Just trying to help.
