After yet another
incomplete save opportunity, Matt Capps is once again under the microscope.
Pitching
coach Rick Anderson told reporters that he is going to review the
video to see if his current struggles are sourced to a mechanical issue. In
May, I pointed out that Capps was trekking
back and forth on the rubber, something that he had not done in the past.
Shortly after that, he quit doing so and rattled off a decent string of
outings. Unfortunately, since the beginning of the month, everything he throws
up is hit hard back at him.
I’m interested
to see if their archives show anything out of the ordinary in Capps’s motion.
After doing a quick jaunt through the MLB.com archives and a few clips saved on
the DVR, I am not seeing anything overtly different. Pitch F/X does not offer
any insight either. This does not mean he isn’t deviating from his normal mechanics,
it just simply means the handful of clips at the two available angles is not
revealing anything.
For Capps,
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