What intrigues me is that Taijuan knew basically nothing about pitching. He didn't have 10,000 innings of habits to undo. He was a really raw kid who could throw a ball, and the Mariners got a hold of him and said, "Throw it like this - repetitively. This is called pitching."
These are the mechanics the Ms wanted him to have.
If the Rangers reworked the wonder arm on Beavan to get him to be cleaner and injury free - and in the process took a teenage arm that threw 96 and reduced it to a 20s arm that throws 90 - then how much more interesting is it to see the Mariners take an inconsistent and brutally raw rocket armer and keep the speed while cleaning up the mechanics to the point they already are?
Taijuan has a motion that allows for identical changeup and FB releases, early mastery of a hard-breaking curve, and control. Will it keep his arm safe to throw this way? I dunno.
Are the Ms done with teaching the wunderkind how to pitch? I kinda doubt it. The next couple of years could be a LOT of fun, I'm tellin' ya...
~G
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