Lindsey Wilhite from the Arlington Daily Herald puts together an absolute must-read for anyone interested in pitching. I'm really, really interested in everyone's response to this. Dr. Marshall is the living embodiment of passion, but it's both positive and negative.

Add 5-8 mph to Prior's 94 (consistent) fastball? Now, that's one I'd like to see.

I have some issues with Marshall's teachings. Most of them are a combination of presentation and understanding - Marshall teaches at a high level and I don't grasp some of it. My biggest problem is one of output: Marshall has done all the research and methodology, yet he has no "publishable" results. When people ask me about certain pitching coaches, I can point to their pitchers. House? Prior, Ryan, Johnson. Mazzone? Smoltz, Glavine, and whoever this year's reclamation project is. Dick Mills has Barry Zito (though Zito also worked with Tom House.)

If Marshall's techniques are THAT GOOD - and I can't dispute that they are - then he should be able to either place a pitcher in high level competition or he's working with such inferior material that we have to seriously question why.