2010 Draft Preview: Scouting Pitcher Jameson Taillon

I wrote an article for THT on Jameson Taillon, the right handed high school pitcher from the Woodlands in Texas. He is a projected top-5 pick in Monday’s draft. Here is an excerpt to the article:

Mechanically, Taillon starts out very slow as he lifts his front leg and then explodes from there. He has around an average tempo—the number of frames from which the knee reaches its uppermost point to release—of 24 or 25 frames, but he looks quicker than that. More importantly, there are no hitches in his arm action: It’s very smooth looking. Any unnecessary pause in one’s arm action or delivery can cause a pitcher to bleed energy, which costs him velocity. Taillon also loads his shoulder extremely well, which is surely a factor in his tremendous velocity. The more velocity, the higher the risk of injury, however.

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