fivethirtyeight on Jake Arrieta’s release point

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. 

52 thoughts on “fivethirtyeight on Jake Arrieta’s release point”

  5. 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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  6. 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.

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  9. dmick89: 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.

    Don't tell me what to do.

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  12. 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.

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  14. 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.

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  15. Mucker:
    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.

    I hope access to the comments will only serve to re-discredit us in your mind.

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  22. 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?

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  36. 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.

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  38. 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!”

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  40. 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.

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