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Bullpen Mechanics — A Scout's View Thursday, August 16, 2007Edwar Ramirez: Selling the ChangeupI don’t care who you are, what your mechanics look like and what pitches you throw. Check out Edwar Ramirez’s stats this year in the minors. Here’s the link to his stats for his minor league career. Let me give you a brief rundown of his statistical performance: 2007: 56 2/3 IP, 26 H, 22 BB, 102 K’s, 0.79 ERA…over 16 K’s/9 between AA and AAA After a successful debut where he struck out the side, he got lit up (after a long time between appearances) in the appearance before he got sent down last time. Now that he’s back up in the bigs, I thought the timing was right for this piece. Ordinarily, you would expect someone who puts up strikeout numbers like this to have an overpowering fastball and some nasty slider/splitter kinda pitch. Well, Edwar Ramirez doesn’t have an overpowering fastball or a killer slider. What he does throw is one of the best changeups in all of baseball. Not only does it have good movement and speed differential from his fastball, but what he does best is that he “sells” his changeup. I have done a voice/video analysis of Ramirez that explains how he “sells” his changeup: Listen here to the analysis I hope you enjoy and one more thing—-the “s” word is not a swear word in my vocabulary..LOL |
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1. Nick Warino Posted: August 16, 2007 at 06:49 AM (#2487190)Only cause I am a Red Sox fan(boy)
(I think we need to see some more Yankees pitchers, though. The world is crying out for Kei Igawa and Brian Bruney.)
Wow, sounds awesome.
1)Thanks
2)I think I'm done with Yankee pitchers for a while, although (TV E will love this) I've thought of writing one on Johnny Damon. I mentioned it one time and I got video and everything, but, just haven't gotten around to it. What's a good title for that one?
"..... Jesus....Judas....Throws like Mary" (I thought that sign was one of the most clever things ever)
3)Every time I hear the video, I realize more and more that I;m not ready for Baseball Tonight (ahs and ums all over the place...####### why can't I just speak like a regular human being...LOL)
Carlos
Dude, that means you're MORE than ready for Baseball Tonight.
Changeup breaks like a splitter...I'd really like to see how he grips that thing.
Requesting again for Lidge. From god-like, to Pujolsitis. Somethin's gotta be goin on...
With Ramirez's arm slot and lack of deception (he is a bit of a slinger) do you have any concern that he will be hit hard by lefties? Also is his arm slot conducive to good fastball command? The times I saw him in person this year in the minors, he really struggled with his fastball command (but was able to get hitters out since he does throw hard enough (92-93 when I saw him) and his changeup is absolutely unhittable).
(Note: I'm not a Yankee fan)
Not really. Regardless of whether the hitter is lefty or right or stand right on top of the plate and hacks down a la Captain Caveman, Ramirez's biggest issue to me will be getting strike 1. Because his changeup moves away from lefties significantly, he profiles as a guy who'll have reverse splits...but.... One of the great things he does is that he id not shy about throwing changeups to both righties and lefties. He has a sucky slider/slurve thing. Ramirez's success will be getting to 0-1, and then just throwing that changeup over and over and over.
Also is his arm slot conducive to good fastball command?
IMO, fastball command is more than just arm slot. His mechanics will make it a little harder to command. He falls off, moves the head out of the way a bit. That said, I wouldn't necessarily mess with his mechanics too much and just get him to repeat the same mechanics over and over.
Like I said in the Hughes articles, I may not be a big fan of Hughes mechanics, but he repeats his motion VERY well and that has to be a major driver of his excellent command.
There's this kid from Curacao, ____ _____, who pitched pretty well today against Saudi Arabia. Since all the other kids have relatively awful mechancics, his really stood out from the lefty side.
The Boss says he might consider that once every Red Sox fan apologizes to him personally for that "Evil Empire" slander.
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