=== Dr's Prescription Dept. ===
Obviously Felix could tire out his Pronator Teres again -- IF he started snapping them off to produce the tailing action he got in early 2007.
Matthew's charts at LL suggest, to me, that he was getting a little more of this tailing action in 2008. Obviously, if Felix could find a happy medium here -- if he could find a way to snap his hand over the ball at release that did not over-fatigue his forearm -- that would fix everything.
The Mariners, and we, would love to see Felix "finish" his fastballs as in early 2007, yet without over-taxing the forearm.
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Earlier, we were asked: If Dr. D were the M's pitching coach, what would be the pronator "fix" alternatives, and which one would he recommend?
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Possible ways to achieve this goal:
Q1. Change his release at the end? If you teach him to not turn his FB over the top so much, it might not provide so much load on his PT muscle. Snap it off, but not quite so far. Felix was pumped up for the Boston game. He got carried away.
Try the same thing with a bit less gusto.
