Rob Arthur has a really good article up on fivethirtyeight.com on Jake Arrieta's emergence as an ace and it discusses the change in his release point at length.
Most of the time, the horizontal and vertical coordinates of a pitcher’s release point are fairly constant, determined largely by mechanics learned long before he made the majors. In Arrieta’s case, however, his release point changed the more time he spent in the bigs. Every year, Arrieta’s release point increased in height and moved further toward the third-base side of the pitching rubber. The total change is extreme: Arrieta moved his release horizontally across the rubber by nearly a foot and upward by nearly six inches.
There aren't many pitchers who have changed it as much as Arrieta. Arrieta shoots for 20th win in a couple days.
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Love the new website. I can actually access it from work again, yay!
WaLiQuote Reply
WaLi,
That’s good to hear. Hopefully some others can too.
dmick89Quote Reply
I’ll work on uncle dave’s request for allowing images in comments later today.
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Boo. I can’t fucking get my profile pic to upload. I feel lost without it.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
I love that Arrieta moved around like this. When I think of exotic angles, my mind always goes to Ziegler and Bradford, where the harsh release points are the only way for them to be successful. Stick that on 96 mph heat and, well, you have a Cy Young candidate.
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There’s a place on the sidebar at the top where people can register for an account if they want so they don’t have to use the captcha thing in the comments. Or just use the captcha.
dmick89Quote Reply
Thanks Adam and David. New website looks very snappy.
MylesQuote Reply
*taps foot, looks at Oct 7th on the calendar for the 500th time*
berseliusQuote Reply
Don't tell me what to do.
berseliusQuote Reply
I’m surprised Cubs fans haven’t started flipping out about the Giants picking up a few games on the Cubs.
dmick89Quote Reply
Game one’s base ball squadron
Fowler
Schwarber
Coghlan
Rizzo
Bryant
Montero
Castro
Hammel
Russell
berseliusQuote Reply
dmick89,
There’s a few that are still worrying about it. Losing 3 of 4 to the Pirates while the Giants win their series will easily double their numbers though.
aisle424Quote Reply
Hopefully the Cubs can at least get a split in this series.
dmick89Quote Reply
This makes my day. I can finally start seeing the comments at work again. Now I’ll be able to comment again. You have no idea how bad it’s sucked the past couple of years having to do work and not being able to goof off on this site.
MuckerQuote Reply
I hope access to the comments will only serve to re-discredit us in your mind.
berseliusQuote Reply
Is Ryno still around to talk 49ers football and the NFL draft?
MuckerQuote Reply
Jason Hammel is off to a great start today. Really setting the team up for the long day.
dmick89Quote Reply
berselius,
(dying laughing) Well I never actually credited you guys. So I’ve always been an original discrediter.
MuckerQuote Reply
I haven’t seen him in awhile. Hopefully he shows up again.
dmick89Quote Reply
He was around before the draft, but that’s about it.
berseliusQuote Reply
That Cole/Arrieta game on Oct 7 is going to be fun to watch.
dmick89Quote Reply
Is Grienke a lock to win the Cy? I have to imagine that Kershaw is still going to get a lot of votes. Does Arrieta have a realistic shot? Grienke’s ERA is inhuman but his advanced metrics are behind Kershaw and Arrieta. If Arrieta stays under 2.00 ERA, he has to get some serious consideration, right?
MuckerQuote Reply
I'm guessing he finishes third behind Greinke and Kershaw. I'd vote for Kershaw, but they don't let discredited bloggers vote.
dmick89Quote Reply
It seems being a discredited blogger has it’s downsides.
MuckerQuote Reply
dmick89,
I bet if Arrieta wins 20 and Greinke doesn’t, it gets Arrieta a decent bump in votes.
aisle424Quote Reply
aisle424,
Yeah, I think it’s going to be fairly close with the vote being split between the three of them.
dmick89Quote Reply
That was a pretty great play by Russell
dmick89Quote Reply
Wow. What a way to tie the game. Nice.
dmick89Quote Reply
That was not a stolen base I recently enjoyed.
MylesQuote Reply
FYI to Gmail users, when registering, the email may go to the Spam folder.
JonKneeVQuote Reply
So this Justin Grimm guy might be a little overworked no?
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FYI, all of my comments go to the spam filter. Not sure if bug or feature.
mylesQuote Reply
JonKneeV,
Thanks for the heads up.
myles,
Really? are you logged in?
dmick89Quote Reply
I’ll look into it.
dmick89Quote Reply
You can change avatars here. http://en.gravatar.com
We aren’t going to add a user avatar plugin like we had before. It was outdated and we all have less time to deal with potential security risks these days. Sorry.
dmick89Quote Reply
I didn’t realize so many people couldn’t access the site before because their work filtered it. Maybe you should promote that shit to twitter/fb/have a press conference. Now that we’re not on that corporate blog network, you can browse and participate in OV again. Maybe that’s why guys like Ryno haven’t been around.
Suburbank IdQuote Reply
wtf
Suburbank IdQuote Reply
My comment doesn’t show, but when I try to post it again I get “Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!”
Suburbank IdQuote Reply
Looks like the spam settings are too rigid. I’ll add that to my list to look into. Sorry about that.
dmick89Quote Reply
Hopefully the spam stuff is resolved. I’m not positive though. Not entirely sure why it’s doing it. If it keeps it up, I’ll look into it some more tomorrow.
dmick89Quote Reply
The Cubs sure strike out a lot.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Javier Baez is awfully good defensively.
dmick89Quote Reply
That was frustrating.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
And predictable.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
The Cubs hitters apparently think JA Happ is good.
dmick89Quote Reply
This has Cubs lose written all over it.
dmick89Quote Reply
Maddon hates pinch-hitting for pitchers so much. I bet a pinch-hitter killed his brother or something.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
dmick89,
False.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
A winner is Cubs.
mylesQuote Reply
Sure felt like playoff games today, didn’t it?
mylesQuote Reply
I didn’t enjoy that game as much as I should have. Too many missed opportunities.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
New Shit
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