Comments on: The Resurgence of Franklin Morales http://www.baseball-intellect.com/resurgence-of-franklin-morales/ Player Scouting, Baseball Mechanics, and Sabermetrics Combined Into One Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:55:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alex Eisenberg http://www.baseball-intellect.com/resurgence-of-franklin-morales/comment-page-1/#comment-3205 Alex Eisenberg Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:35:18 +0000 http://www.baseball-intellect.com/?p=4020#comment-3205 When a pitcher goes from starter to reliever, it is true that they get to go all out. There is more effort used and they dial it up more. But for Morales it's different because even as a starter, he should of been able to dial it up when he wanted to and he wasn't able to do that. The changes in his mechanics stemmed from trying to improve his overall command, but ended up making things worse because he became so conscious of his mechanics, overthinking things...overthinking is the last thing you want to do on the mound so it just kinda snowballed on him. In addition, he was a starter prior to last year as well and didn't suffer the same kind of velocity loss he had last year. When a pitcher goes from starter to reliever, it is true that they get to go all out. There is more effort used and they dial it up more. But for Morales it’s different because even as a starter, he should of been able to dial it up when he wanted to and he wasn’t able to do that. The changes in his mechanics stemmed from trying to improve his overall command, but ended up making things worse because he became so conscious of his mechanics, overthinking things…overthinking is the last thing you want to do on the mound so it just kinda snowballed on him.

In addition, he was a starter prior to last year as well and didn’t suffer the same kind of velocity loss he had last year.

]]> By: Benjamin Rice http://www.baseball-intellect.com/resurgence-of-franklin-morales/comment-page-1/#comment-3190 Benjamin Rice Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:24:01 +0000 http://www.baseball-intellect.com/?p=4020#comment-3190 You didn't mention it, but do you think this has something to do with him moving from a starting role to the set-up role? Perhaps last year he was concerned with the toll that throwing that hard took on him over the course of a game, and this year knowing that he's only responsible for one inning, he can go back to throwing? Or perhaps pitchers at this level don't have that mentality? You didn’t mention it, but do you think this has something to do with him moving from a starting role to the set-up role? Perhaps last year he was concerned with the toll that throwing that hard took on him over the course of a game, and this year knowing that he’s only responsible for one inning, he can go back to throwing? Or perhaps pitchers at this level don’t have that mentality?

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