Pitching Mechanics Analyses
and Video Clips

This page contains links to analyses of video clips of the pitching mechanics of a number of major league baseball pitchers. I have put these analyses together in an effort to understand why some pitchers experience arm problems while others don't.

I have written a couple of pieces on proper pitching mechanics and how I teach pitching mechanics, if that is your primary area of interest.

Now, on to the analyses.

Pitching Video Clip Analyses

These are analyses in which I go through a video clip of the pitcher that I have slowed down so that what is going on is more obvious. I also illustrate my points by pulling out individual frames from these clips.

Unproven But Intriguing

Younger pitchers who don't have a track record of durability but who interest me for one reason or another.

   - Carlos Martinez

On The Bubble

Pitchers who generally have decent mechanics but who make me nervous for one reason or another.

   - Joba Chamberlain
   - Ian Kennedy
   - Tim Lincecum
   - Jason Motte
   - Johan Santana
   - Jess Todd

Mixed Bags

Pitchers who had significant success but whose careers were likely cut short due to problematic pitching mechanics.

   - John Smoltz

Pitchers With Problematic Mechanics

Pitchers with obviously problematic pitching mechanics and who I think represent significant injury risks as a result.

   - Jonathan Broxton
   - AJ Burnett
   - Chris Carpenter
   - Aaron Crow
   - Jaime Garcia
   - Gio Gonzalez
   - Tommy Hanson
   - Rich Harden
   - Luke Hochevar
   - Josh Kinney
   - Brandon McCarthy
   - Jake Peavy
   - Michael Pineda
   - Anthony Reyes
   - Ben Sheets
   - Stephen Strasburg
   - Adam Wainwright
      - Adam Wainwright and the Inverted W
   - C.J. Wilson
   - Barry Zito
   - Joel Zumaya

Trainwrecks

Pitchers who have poor pitching mechanics and multiple injury problems as a result.

   - Mark Prior
      - Mark Prior's Perfect Pitching Mechanics
      - Mark Prior: A Different Perspective
   - BJ Ryan
   - Scott Williamson
   - Kerry Wood

Comparative Pitching Video Clip Analyses

Comparisons of injury-free and injury-plagued pitchers.

   - Mark Prior vs. Greg Maddux and Nolan Ryan

Photographic Flipbook Analyses

If you are interested in these documents, you might also be interested in the photographic pitching mechanics analyses I put together when I first started analyzing pitching mechanics and looking for injury patterns.

HD Flipbook Pitching Video Clip Analyses

For a number of reasons that I explain in more detail here, my pitching flipbooks are only available to my pitching clients and people who have purchased my Pitching Mechanics 101 DVD. If you are unfamiliar with my flipbook analyses, here is an example of one...

   - Baseball Pitching Analysis (Jeff Suppan)

HD Pitching Video Clips

I have in my video clip library a large number of high-speed, high definition video clips, like the video clip below that I use to explain how Jeff Suppan (actually) throws the ball, that I have shot myself and that show the mechanics of pitchers like Tim Lincecum, Randy Johnson, Barry Zito, Chris Carpenter, Adam Wainwright, Josh Beckett, Justin Verlander, Rick Porcello, Roy Oswalt, and many others in incredible detail and clarity.

Jeff Suppan Throwing a Fastball

Because it takes a considerable amount of time and money to film and put together each of these clips, they are only available to people who have purchased my Pitching Mechanics 101 DVD.

Dr. Mike Marshall's Pitching Mechanics

Because there is so much controversy about, and interest in, the pitching mechanics that Dr. Mike Marshall advocates, I have prepared an analysis of a couple of clips that I have.

   - Dr. Mike Marshall Pitching Mechanics