Doc,
What I see is an entirely natural move that hasn't been tweaked/coached/frame-by-framed. I love it. This is what the great RHers of our generation looked like. It is more than a bit of a throw-back motion: Rock a bit, turn your cheeks (or left cheek) toward the plate, push off, explode the hips. Simple. Simple. I'm not quite so sure it's as "arm-y" as you think (I defer to you, however). If you stop and go at the 54-55 second mark of the link, you'll see just how explosive he is with his hips. It (seems to me) is a hip fly/shoulders fly/arm follows process, with almost no "effort" or strain.
This is Roy Hobbs on the mound.
Compare a young-ish Seaver:
http://metspolice.com/2012/02/20/tom-seaver-pitches-an-inning-in-1973-wo...
Seaver doesn't stand quite so tall, and drives a bit lower (his right knee nearly on the ground),but his turn, leg lift, and explosion are quite similar.
Compare an old-ish Clemens:
http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/3570436
Left cheek squares to the batter, leg comes up naturally, stands tall like Walker, hips go boom.
I know: Probably all RH power pitchers share many similarities...but Walker shares some very comforting ones.
If he can locate the 95 MPH heat (both on and off the plate) and throw a curve ball somewhere around the plate, then he's a formidable MLB force right now. The change will come.
8 starts of AA dominance and he may move directly to Seattle, the heck with Tacoma.
Man, what a motion.
Wouldn't a Pudge Rodriguez catching Walker and Paxton and Hultzen next season (or this!!!???) be WAY cool.
Catching Walker, I imagine he would hold down one finger a whole bunch of the time, two fingers a fifth of the time, and would wiggle his fingers a few times.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
moe
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