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Originally Posted by bluejays
Question from left field. Why don't pitchers throw at different arm angles occasionally to throw off batters looking for the same release point? Pedro Martinez used to supposedly throw different pitches in different arm angles. But what I'm saying is if you don't have that talent, why don't you throw the occasional pitch by submarining? Or side arm? Just to change it up a bit.
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Speculation only - it’s really really tough to do in reality as a significant change. Release points, grips, catcher placement all would change. Effective I would think but hard to do .