Scott Kazmir credits biomechanical analysis and Rick Peterson for turning around his season. Part of Peterson’s help was that he created a baseline for Scott when he was in the Met’s minor league system:
The lab had baseline information on Kazmir from when Peterson took him there when he was with the Mets in 2004, before the organization made the decision to trade Kazmir for Victor Zambrano. When Kazmir brought the ASMI info back to Tampa Bay, “We didn’t know how to read the results at all,” Kazmir explained, so it was decided that it would be best that Peterson digest the information and help.
…
Kazmir flew to New Jersey with the blessing of Tampa Bay management and worked with Peterson for three days. The first day, they took to the diamond at Shore Christian Academy in Wall, N.J. The second day, they worked at a yoga studio in the city, using the mirrors in the studio to work on Kazmir’s form.
During the three days, key drills were used like shadow throwing and long toss with eyes closed to better feel the body’s movements. Kazmir’s delivery was cleaned up and amazingly he picked up three miles on his fastball and his changeup and breaking ball returned.
Now the Angels get to take advantage of the improvements.
Posted by David Pinto at 12:16 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | 1 Comment
Comments
Leave a Reply
October 16th, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
The Brewers are supposedly working on a deal to hire Peterson as pitching coach.