The good news from last season is that Lincecum's rate of strikeouts, walks and home runs allowed were slightly better with Posey catching him. Strikeout, walk and home run rates are less dependent on defense and luck than ERA and won-loss record. Thus, while Lincecum allowed fewer runs per game and won more games with Sanchez catching last year, his core numbers were actually better with Posey catching.
If you prefer traditional stats like wins, losses and ERA, then Lincecum did throw better with Sanchez catching him last year. If you prefer modern, advanced stats like strikeouts per nine innings pitched, then Lincecum actually pitched better with Posey catching despite the sky-high ERA.
Posey has been the catcher when Lincecum has looked at his best so far this season. Posey could be the reason for Lincecum's improved results over his last two starts. However, given last season's results, it's too early to conclude that definitively.
Lincecum could have made a mechanical or mental adjustment that is the reason for his improvement. Or, his results could be completely random and have nothing to do with who the catcher is. Perhaps the Padres lineup just isn't very good. Posey should continue to catch Lincecum because he's a very good defensive catcher and Sanchez is not.
Sanchez should honestly be in Fresno working on his game. It's doing him no good to sit on the bench in San Francisco right now. Playing everyday at Triple-A would help improve his game much more than rotting on the bench.
However, even if Posey continues to catch Lincecum, that doesn't guarantee Timmy will keep pitching well. For that to happen, Lincecum will have to keep making pitches regardless of who the catcher is. If Lincecum is going to continue to have a successful season in , it's going to have more to do with the guy on the mound than the guy behind the plate.
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When you apply force to that resistance with intensity you are training the body to be more explosive. Because here he advocates body weight exercise, which I thought was also strength training. Yet in the same post he advises pitchers, wisely I think, to add external loads only after the movements are mastered, which sounds like weight lifting to me.
Along with his velocity. And he injured his back and hip. His hip injury, a labrum tear, could be partly a result of the kind of over use seen at the professional level, but I wonder if years of coaxing herculean velocity from his body and the concomitant faulty mechanics helped the tear along. Nolan Ryan pitched in the Majors for 27 years. He is the all-time strikeout leader with 5, Tim Lincecum is a great pitcher and has accomplished great things.
His success is encouraging because it demonstrates that with appropriate hard work and genetics a little squid can run with big dogs. It remains to be seen whether Lincecum can reverse his downward trajectory. I hope so. I totally agree that pitching is an explosive activity that requires power expressed through specific, consistently executed mechanics, and that speed is critical to this.
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