There’s no measurement out there that I could find that depicts how a pitcher’s arm is angled at release. Finding every sidearm/submarine pitcher in MLB today proved to be a more difficult endeavor than I had originally envisioned. As is true with pitching three-quarters or overhand, it’s all in learning to do it properly.Īt its core, sidearm pitching is releasing the ball with your throwing arm parallel to the ground or lower. As many times as it’s been said, it’s never actually been proven. There’s a widespread opinion that throwing sidearm leads to more injuries. It’s usually learned by choice and is often developed after failed attempts to pitch with a more conventional arm slot. The vast majority of young baseball players don’t naturally find themselves throwing sidearm. The most obvious answer is that when a kid first picks up a baseball their first instinct isn’t to throw it from the side. In fact, this type of motion is making a resurgence and it’s creating some of the most interesting and entertaining pitchers in baseball today. However, underhand and its more modern cousin, the sidearm delivery, never fully died out.
It was easier to control the ball and manipulate it to move in different ways with this method. This led to pitchers slowly but surely gravitating towards a more natural overhand throwing motion. This meant pitchers were more of a means to an end, lobbing the ball to induce contact. Fans wanted action- balls in play were what made the game fun to watch. When organized baseball first came about, pitchers were only allowed to throw underhand.
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