Quick Note: Anthony Reyes

by Kyle Boddy on Aug 17, 2008 1:33 AM PDT in Pitching Mechanics Comment 6 comments

Anthony Reyes was recently traded to the Cleveland Indians and has performed fairly well for them in his short time with the new club. However, as Chris O' Leary has already said (on numerous occasions), his pitching mechanics are very suspect.

Note in the following animated image (credit: Chris O' Leary) the following things:

The excessive reverse-rotation of the shoulders prior to the frame-by-frame analysis
The Inverted W position in Frame 37
The timing flaw in Frame 41 (his arm is horizontal)
His stride location in frames 43-44 - extremely closed to the target

All of these things make me worried as an Indians' fan. I don't expect Anthony Reyes to hold up to any sort of workload.

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consistently pick up pitchers with poor mechanics and often times fail to correct them. It is said this team so dependent on the health of its players is so loose with its conditioning and mechanics.

Baseball is God's sport! All Truth Goes Through Three Stages 1.It is ridiculed 2.It is violently opposed 3.Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. kinesiologist

by E5 on Aug 18, 2008 6:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Is it any wonder

that he’s an ex-teammate of Mark Prior?

by hazel on Aug 19, 2008 7:52 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Actually...

You raise a good point. Both Prior and Reyes have the classic “hung arms” pose that Tom House taught then, as inspired by Paul Nyman.

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by Kyle Boddy on Aug 19, 2008 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

As a Cardinals fan

I’d love for you to experience the in-house hype that this kid produced. It wasn’t quite as big as Prior, but it was the exact same note. “If only” repeated over and over again.

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by hazel on Aug 20, 2008 7:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yea I remeber the hype

I bought into it, that is until I actually saw him pitch. After that I said no way.

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by E5 on Aug 20, 2008 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs