http://www.baseballdigest.com/2009/03/17/yankees-hoping-burnetts-08-was-no-fluke/ America's longest-running baseball-only magazine Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.baseballdigest.com/2009/03/17/yankees-hoping-burnetts-08-was-no-fluke/#comment-670 Lem The Gem Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:51:26 +0000 http://baseballdigest.com/?p=1730#comment-670 Part of the entire Yankee starting rotation will be about how competitive each of them are and how much they help each other out while the offense is at bat. Arm angles, grips, mechanics balance between legs, hips, shoulder, arm, elbow, wrist and release point all should be part of the season long TEAM approach to getting Sabathia, Wang, Pettite, Burnett and Chamberlain to help each other out in the dugout. Economy of movement, throwing first pitch strikes, pounding the zone, making the mental and physical adjustments through hopefully six to seven innings of a quality start should be the goal as an entire TEAM approach to how they interact DURING a game with each other. That's how a WINNING/analytical rotation finds its groove. A pitching coach is usual the LAST word not the first on these sorts of things in the course of a game. The great Yankee teams of the late 1990's used this approach to keep themselves focused every inning and giving their team a decent shot at a quality start every time. Part of the entire Yankee starting rotation will be about how competitive each of them are and how much they help each other out
while the offense is at bat. Arm angles, grips, mechanics balance between legs, hips, shoulder, arm, elbow, wrist and release point all should be part of the season long TEAM approach to getting Sabathia, Wang, Pettite, Burnett and Chamberlain to help each other out in the dugout. Economy of movement, throwing first pitch strikes, pounding the zone, making the mental and physical adjustments through hopefully six to seven innings of a quality start should be the goal as an entire TEAM approach to how they interact DURING a game with each other. That’s how a WINNING/analytical rotation finds its groove. A pitching coach is
usual the LAST word not the first on these sorts of things in the
course of a game. The great Yankee teams of the late 1990′s used this approach to keep themselves focused every inning and giving their team a decent shot at a quality start every time.

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