Comments on: Maxline: Increasing Speed and Injury-Proofing Pitchers? http://www.blogging-baseball.com/2007/05/11/maxline-key-to-increased-speed-and-injury-proofing-pitchers/ All-time baseball highlights and real-time commentary. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:13:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: DBaseball86 http://www.blogging-baseball.com/2007/05/11/maxline-key-to-increased-speed-and-injury-proofing-pitchers/#comment-9637 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:07:42 +0000 http://www.blogging-baseball.com/2007/05/11/maxline-key-to-increased-speed-and-injury-proofing-pitchers/#comment-9637 Sir, You Said... "I see as a glaring flaw in Marshall’s technique that the pitching hand comes out of the glove followed by the arm going behind the back with the grip, i.e. fastball, splitter, curve, slider clearly visible to anyone with binoculars (provided the caps are off). This makes for open season amongst sign thieves. The same guy sitting in the centerfield stands with a direct view of the catcher’s signs, would now be able to flash the pitcher’s grip of the ball to the opposing dugout." I know that the different grips for Marshall's Pitches are so similar that you would not really be able to detect them I think. And even so, the pitcher could hold the pitch to look like a slider...and then throw it with a sinker or screwball arm action...cause its really more of the arm action that you get the pitches to move so dramatically, not the grips. Sir, You Said…
“I see as a glaring flaw in Marshall’s technique that the pitching hand comes out of the glove followed by the arm going behind the back with the grip, i.e. fastball, splitter, curve, slider clearly visible to anyone with binoculars (provided the caps are off). This makes for open season amongst sign thieves. The same guy sitting in the centerfield stands with a direct view of the catcher’s signs, would now be able to flash the pitcher’s grip of the ball to the opposing dugout.”

I know that the different grips for Marshall’s Pitches are so similar that you would not really be able to detect them I think. And even so, the pitcher could hold the pitch to look like a slider…and then throw it with a sinker or screwball arm action…cause its really more of the arm action that you get the pitches to move so dramatically, not the grips.

]]> by: sam http://www.blogging-baseball.com/2007/05/11/maxline-key-to-increased-speed-and-injury-proofing-pitchers/#comment-6219 Sat, 12 May 2007 20:27:57 +0000 http://www.blogging-baseball.com/2007/05/11/maxline-key-to-increased-speed-and-injury-proofing-pitchers/#comment-6219 I wonder if I can teach my kids to throw that way... I wonder if I can teach my kids to throw that way…

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