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Quote: Originally Posted by PLite14

playing the devil's advocate: Is it true that Mauer's routine isn't current in that video? I hope so because as someone mentioned before, the way his wrist moved before his at bat looked very strange. The game looks truly unbelievable, and it looks like something has been done with the pitching motions, but as some have said before, the ball looks kind of weird as it leaves the pitchers hand.

A couple things I wanna add about this...

I can remember a few animations where the batters wrists do weird things like that from last year. I hope most of them have been fixed. It's like what our wrists would move like if our arms couldn't rotate below the elbow.

The thing is you really get a sense for how hard a pitch is thrown in the Japanese baseball game vids that have been circulating. The snap of the ball out the hand just isn't quite there for some pitchers.

Anyway, being the stickler for tiny lil' nuances in animations, that I am. pretty cool to see Verlander catch the ball over his shoulder all nonchalant like that.