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Dow Jones. Get exclusive tips and insights on mechanics, velocity, arm care and more, delivered to your inbox every Monday through Saturday morning.

Seriously, pitchers, coaches and parents are loving these tips. Don't miss out, sign up now! Steps 1. Starting stance 2. Maximum knee height 5. Stride 6. Stride foot contact 7. Arm cocking 8. Maximum external rotation 9. Arm acceleration Release Rather than learn and hone two separate types of mechanics—the stretch and the windup—Miller could streamline his long-limbed contortions and focus only on the stretch.

What do I have to lose at this point? Since the start of , Miller has a 2. Miller has become an anti-windup zealot and he has company. In that same season Miller went stretch only, Yu Darvish arrived from Japan to pitch for the Texas Rangers and quickly scrapped his windup. Valentine managed the Chiba Lotte Marines for seven years. Other notable pitchers and prospects have reduced their windups to being near replications of the stretch deliveries. There is a long-standing supposition persisting in the baseball community that pitching out of the stretch causes more arm strain and reduces velocity, two postulates we now know—thanks to science—are false.

Famed orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews and his Ph. The research, published in Nov.



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