I'm not endorsing nor downplaying this article. Just a different angle for the discussion. Note that it was written before the recent rash of injuries including a pitcher the article specifically mentions.
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Great...... an accountant turned pitching expert jumping on the bandwagon.......
Originally Posted by BOF:
Great...... an accountant turned pitching expert jumping on the bandwagon.......
Ah, but don't you worry! He's got a solution for you. It will only cost you a few dollars...
The issue is that to get to the highest levels, you have to throw hard. Throwing hard will increase your chances of injury. So, the question is, do I want to be an effective, lower velocity pitcher at a lower level and remain healthy, or do I want to risk injury and have the chance to make it to the highest level. Most people will risk the chance of injury for the chance to pitch in the major leagues. Not much you can do about it. Try to find the safest way to throw hard and keep your chances of injury as low as you can. But if you're not hitting that 90 mark, you won't get a chance to show your stuff at the highest level. It's just a fact we'll have to live with I think.
If I could dig up an old video of O'Leary pitching he once posted on Eteamz you would fall down laughing. He would lose what little credibility he has. The guy didn't play past LL. He's not an orthopedic surgeon. And he thinks he's an expert. Why the father of a pitcher of Matt Harvey's potential (2007) would contact O'Leary for advice is mind boggling. O'Leary has been laughed off this board for both his hitting and pitching philosophies. He thinks he's an expert in both.
Seems contradictory O'Leary places blame on early & prolonged pronation & credits Marshall at the end essentially saying he's right but a poor communicator. Below is an excerpt from one of Marshall's books.
7) Their Pitching Forearm
Marshall baseball pitchers powerfully pronate (turning their pitching thumb to point downward). Therefore, they not only pronate the pitching forearm, they also flex the pitching elbow. As a result, they apply force to their pitches in straight lines toward home plate.
7) Their Pitching Forearm
Marshall baseball pitchers powerfully pronate (turning their pitching thumb to point downward). Therefore, they not only pronate the pitching forearm, they also flex the pitching elbow. As a result, they apply force to their pitches in straight lines toward home plate.
O'Leary's stuff is interesting. He is totally against the inverted W, or anything approaching it, even a forearm parallel to the ground at foot strike. He thinks it puts greater stress on the elbow and shoulder. He is not the only person that that holds this opinion regarding the inverted W. But, he takes it a little further than most with his insistence that the forearm be more vertical. I have no idea whether he is right or wrong. The biggest problem I have with him is the same problem I have with most of these internet guys, i.e. the moral certainty that his opinion is right and everybody else is wrong.
Originally Posted by justbaseball:
I'm not endorsing nor downplaying this article. Just a different angle for the discussion. Note that it was written before the recent rash of injuries including a pitcher the article specifically mentions.