@bamabigdawg Check this out.
This from a former college pitcher:
"Okay…I’m going to try to say the following points without sounding too judgmental, but forgive me because this is something that really irritates me. Barnhill is the ace for Florida, and she is getting a lot of attention and is up for all of these awards including player and pitcher of the year. Don’t get me wrong, she throws very hard and has a lot of movement on her ball, so that makes her very effective. And I do have to say, she has GREAT forearm fire. But everyone is quick to focus on her low ERA, and her strikeouts, but no one wants to address the fact that literally every single pitch she throws is ILLEGAL. On every one of her pitches, she has a huge crow hop off of the rubber where her back foot clearly is in the air. It’s not subtle at all. I have watched many games this season where pitchers have been called a dozen times in the course of a game for illegal pitches that were much less noticeable than Barnhill’s, yet she has never been called once. The reason it bothers me so much is because there are so many great players and pitchers this year: Megan Good, Sara Groenewegen, and even her teammate Delanie Gourley, who also have impressive ERA’s, strikeouts, and are just as effective as she is, except they are doing it LEGALLY. Sadly, they will probably be overlooked just because everyone is so taken with Barnhill’s ERA. I was hoping that now that we are in the post-season, umpires would start to be more strict and call her on it, but no one has. Just doesn’t seem right to me. "
And it's still happening...
And, that's not even bringing in how often she's out of the pitching lane.
This from a former college pitcher:
"Okay…I’m going to try to say the following points without sounding too judgmental, but forgive me because this is something that really irritates me. Barnhill is the ace for Florida, and she is getting a lot of attention and is up for all of these awards including player and pitcher of the year. Don’t get me wrong, she throws very hard and has a lot of movement on her ball, so that makes her very effective. And I do have to say, she has GREAT forearm fire. But everyone is quick to focus on her low ERA, and her strikeouts, but no one wants to address the fact that literally every single pitch she throws is ILLEGAL. On every one of her pitches, she has a huge crow hop off of the rubber where her back foot clearly is in the air. It’s not subtle at all. I have watched many games this season where pitchers have been called a dozen times in the course of a game for illegal pitches that were much less noticeable than Barnhill’s, yet she has never been called once. The reason it bothers me so much is because there are so many great players and pitchers this year: Megan Good, Sara Groenewegen, and even her teammate Delanie Gourley, who also have impressive ERA’s, strikeouts, and are just as effective as she is, except they are doing it LEGALLY. Sadly, they will probably be overlooked just because everyone is so taken with Barnhill’s ERA. I was hoping that now that we are in the post-season, umpires would start to be more strict and call her on it, but no one has. Just doesn’t seem right to me. "
And it's still happening...
And, that's not even bringing in how often she's out of the pitching lane.
