Quote:Different reports have come out saying that bortles bad delivery is a result of footwork, which he wasn't allowed to work on in the offseason because of Olson.


Add to that shaky footwork the tendinitis and separated shoulders and you can piece together yourself how bortles went from a stud in 2015 to average at best in 2016.

 

OK...  Well, I'm not gonna act like I'm some elite athlete.  But I've thrown a fooseball around a time or two.  The windup that BB5 has, the one in which he dips the ball down below his waste like an Egyptian hieroglyphic is not one the result of sloppy footwork, alone.

 

His windup is awful.  The ball should never get below his hip, much less his waiste when he's releasing the ball.  And that, in my opinion, is not a result of his footwork...

 

As for his seperated shoulders and tendinitis...  I heard about these stories that came up AFTER the season was over.  They seem kinda dubious.  But I guess they could have caused the destruction of his throwing motion.  I'm hoping that he's 100% healed then and can begin to work on his motion to look less like this:

 



 

And more like this:

 

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