Joba and Wang: Pitching Mechanics

This site caught my attention recently (via Hardball Times). It’s called Driveline Mechanics and it features detailed and descriptive analyses of pitcher mechanics. They’ve done some work on our boys Joba Chamberlain and Chien-Ming Wang. Here’s the Joba feature, and here’s the text on Wang. They seem to like Wang’s mechanics a lot more than Joba’s.

I don’t know too much about mechanics, other than the general motions (some of the language they used in the Wang piece could be somewhat confusing) and things of that nature, but I found this tidbit on Wang to be pretty interesting. Wang apparently punches his glove lightly when delivering a pitch. He does it in order to keep his timing in check and he reportedly added this motion during the spring.

Here’s a GIF image:

 

I mean, Wang has always been effective, but if this added motion allows him to really focus on his delivery and timing (he’s had mechanical failures in the past) then he could be even more effective this year, which can be seen in his past 3 starts (all wins).

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