Looking at Josh Ravin: Pitch Mechanics

I don’t have a ton of footage that lines up for guys from 2009 and 2010 with similar angles to break down like I was able to do with Didi Gregorius and Dave Sappelt. So I decided to go with a slightly different route and look at pitchers mechanics when they throw offspeed/breaking balls and fastballs, to see if there were any differences between the two. Josh Ravin gets the first look. On the left he is throwing a curveball, while on the right he is throwing a fastball.

What I did was find the point in the video where his front leg reaches its highest point, then go backwards the same amount of time to start each sequence. I didn’t expect to see much of a difference between the two deliveries, but I must say that unless I am missing something, they are nearly identical in both mechanics and timing. You be the judge though and if you see something, bring it up.

Below is some video that I took from the same game (just later since its dark in the video below, while the video I used for the above animation it is still daytime) to give a better variety of pitches and mechanics.