Community Projection: El Alces

Your points are well taken.  But I am not disputing your points; but rather the article cited.  But first things first.  My comparison of hitting, swinging etc to pitching was in the context of each such athletic motion can be broken down into a series of muskeo-skelatal levers rotating around a series of fulcrums. In pitching the lst lever is the big toe of the back leg, then to the ankle, tibia, femur, hip, back, shoulders neck upper arm, forearm, wrist etc with the joints as the fulcrums.  Let me rephrase.  Piching is like hitting or swinging a badmitton raquet ONLY in terms that the body is a series of skeletal levers.  Hell swinging a hammer is a levered motion.  Hope that clears that up.

Maybe you and I are arguing the same thing, but using different analogies. You apparentley understand the the back leg, front leg part of my rant. My reference to throwing from the outfield needs some small elaboration obviously.  In the outfield, or simply playing long toss, you are not limited to throwing from a rubber from a standing start turned 90 degrees from your target. In the outfield you have the advantage of a running start facing your target, even if it is only one step or a simple crow-hop.  How many times have you  seen an outfielder with a tremdous gun, step on a pitching mound and throw nothing close to what he can from the field.  Momentum it is called. It can be developed linearly (the running start--crow hop) as in my example for outfielders which is what Carroll and particularly Marshall are advocating trying to reproduce in a pitching motion.  What I am advocating is rotational momentum with the vertical plane emphasized.

My gripe is with Carroll and Marshall and House, and their ilk in by emphasizing minutia and trying to make the craft of pitching more complicated than it is. Misconceptions are introduced invariably. All while lining their pockets with the hard earned dollars of little league parents.  And in the process continuing to spread misinformation and bad technique into generations of future pitchers.  Particularly their lack of understanding or emphasis of the front leg and that "pushing" is really a misnomer. I can't count the number of young pitchers and coaches over the years that I have had to disabuse of the "push off" theory.  Most pitchers do not tap the power that comes from the ability of the front leg to snap the hips through the power zone.

You are rare in that you understand the function of the front leg.  That is where the true power is generated..in a power pitcher, classic drop and drive type that is.  From pulling, or snapping the hips through.  The way these guys advocate pushing is no different than Omar throwing off his back leg in the infield.  That is "pushing off" carried to an extreme.  Now how much power is generated by pushing off the back leg as compared to pulling through with the front leg?  Go ahead, try it yourself and you will understand exactly what I am talking about.  A drop and drive power pitcher is capable of throwing a complete game and the only thing aching afterwards are his glutes and quads. No shoulder or elbow ice required.

Anyway, enough. I could write pages and pages but then I would probably look like somebody working on a phd trying to bullshit a credentials committee.

It all stems from my biggest peeve with MLB in general.  It seems nobody but Billy Beane is noted or willing to think outside the bun.  Maybe this is not such a bad thing as baseball seems to be the only great sport institution most resistant to change and gives more than passing lip service to its traditions.

(That ad is pretty funny.)