""You can tell me you want to spin upside down on your head midway through your delivery," Hill said. "If it comes out 100, I'm going to just sit back and watch. I'm not going to shove you into a box. I'm not going to tell you that you have to move a certain way, you have to use your glute, you have to use your foot. I'm just going to ask you different things that make sense in your head, and then we're going to find a way to make it come to life.""
"After Hill and Ian Walsh, the Dodgers' pitching performance coordinator, held the meeting with Sasaki, they made the discovery. They found Sasaki was rotating too early, disrupting his delivery and reducing the amount of force he could put into the ball on release. 'Rotating the pelvis early is just death to everything,' Hill said."
"Sasaki suffered a right shoulder impingement in May, and had a difficult time during his rehab stint, which lasted more than a month. He wasn't producing results in Triple-A, and his fastball velocity had fallen into the mid-90s from the 100 mph heater he exhibited earlier in the season."
Roki Sasaki experienced a right shoulder impingement in May and struggled through a lengthy rehab, losing velocity and effectiveness in Triple-A. Dodgers pitching director Rob Hill and performance coordinator Ian Walsh met with Sasaki and identified premature pelvic rotation as the key mechanical problem reducing force at release. Hill used a player-friendly, non-prescriptive approach, offering concepts rather than rigid cues to let Sasaki find what made sense. Video comparisons to 2022–2023 revealed differences in the back leg position, and coaches provided a targeted fix. Sasaki tested the adjustment in a bullpen and showed immediate improvement.
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