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My Chat With Tyson Ross

Hey AN, thought you might be interested to read what Oakland's second pick yesterday, Tyson Ross, had to say about being drafted by his hometown team. Also, he reveals why he has such an unorthodox follow-through on his delivery.

Basically, Ross is a shortstop on the mound. He never changed his throwing motion from the time he was an infielder, and throws the same way when he toes the rubber now.

You can read the full interview here.

In my communication with Ross, I was impressed -- as the scouts said in his draft report, this is a character guy with great mental makeup.

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Ryan Armbrust: Has anyone tried to change your mechanics?

Tyson Ross: People have always said I throw funny, and attempted to change my mechanics, but it has worked so well for me so far I just have to believe "if it ain’t broke, dont fix it."

Makes me wonder if the A’s ask him to change his mechanics, he will or not.

by Zonis on Jun 6, 2008 11:21 AM PDT   0 recs

I'm sure it'll be a different story when a professional team...

...paying you money is telling you to do it instead of a college coach.

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by Flashfire on Jun 6, 2008 11:37 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

+1

If he can learn to use his legs more to generate drive, look the hell out.

by mikev on Jun 6, 2008 12:02 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

There's more

“If it ain’t broke, just wait.”

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by Flashfire on Jun 6, 2008 12:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Arm Action - he'd better change

His arm action is absolutely atrocious. For his health, he better change. Here’s Tyson Ross compared to Mark Prior’s unprecedented arm action (the vertical Inverted W):

And Tyson Ross:

Taking the elbow above the acromial (shoulder) line in an Inverted W (Paul Nyman’s term) causes serious shoulder impingement and causes the arm to be late at footstrike, which also causes the arm to lay back in external rotation (normal) much more violently (not normal). This will unnecessarily stress the Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL), which is the ligament replaced in Tommy John surgery.

There is a lot more to dislike about this kid than his followthrough (which looks okay). It’s his ugly arm action and timing flaws. Ugh.

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by Driveline Mechanics on Jun 8, 2008 3:21 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

haha better interview than i got

“thanks man”.

but i’m sure he got about a million messages yesterday. there was a good writeup in the paper (ANG) about him.

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by flipgatey3 on Jun 6, 2008 12:25 PM PDT   0 recs

Awesome! Thanks Ryan!

Care to share Tyson’s phone number with me?

by Taj Adib on Jun 6, 2008 11:41 PM PDT   0 recs

Nice, Ryan ...

I’ll be happy to take Ryan’s number too …
You should also tag the story for easy access in the future.

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by devo on Jun 7, 2008 12:24 AM PDT   0 recs

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