I have a question concerning my son's mechanics, he is a freshman in HS this year. He hooks his wrist with the ball on his take away. He says he see's many MLB pitchers doing it. I personaly don't like it.Please help with the pro's con's of this type of take away.
Thanks in advance.

I am not going to give you pros and cons of this. I am going to simply make this statement. I talking to a ex-mlb pitcher he said this. Why are there so many 5 foot 9 Latin American pitchers that can throw 90+ but yet we have so many 6 foot 4 American born pitchers that can barely hit 80? It is because in Latin America all they care about is can you throw strikes and can you throw hard. In America however we are obsessed with tinkering because we do not like the way it looks. IMO if your son can throw strikes, does it really matter?

I have no idea the best answer to the question but am curious to hear from those who have a strong opinion.

It doesn't seem the take away is as important as where his hand is when he finishes the stretch phase and everything is about to come to the plate. What is the position of his wrist then?

The positon of the wrist is pretty good once he comes to the plate. He throw a lot of strikes and has a good breaking ball with this wrist action.

If it ain't broke then don't fix it. Remember we are trying to create baseball players and not robots. I think socal nailed it when he mentioned what he was discussing with the MLB player. Throw it hard and throw it at the edge of the zone and good things will happen.

Only concern here needs to be whether his delivery is causing him any joint pain. If that's the only flaw in his mechanics; and he's throwing well, I'd let it go.....

If im am picturing what he is doing correct in my head, then it sounds like the ball is facing his head at the top point of his seperation. If this is so, I would really keep an eye on him because it is elbow surgery waiting to happen. Watch the rotation of the ball when he throws a fastball, and if it has a spin that looks like a loose slider, then he needs to get some pitching instruction quick before you have doctor's bills for Tommy John Surgery.

It looks alot like Barry Zito motion.