Lower Half: Scherzer’s leg at its peak is high comparatively to others. He also moves his momentum forward a good amount as his leg rises to its peak. When his leg comes down he does ceases to move forward and begins drastically lowing himself to the ground. He maintains very good lower half direction and builds up a great amount of speed during this process which he then uses after his front foot finally slams into the ground. Scherzer’s front foot actually retracts back towards the rubber before hitting the ground. This is counter productive as you ideally don’t want this to happen. This means that all the momentum he gathers going forward isn’t being used. He is probably keeping his weight slightly too far back (It is Max Scherzer though so he obviously knows what he is doing with it, he most likely does this on change-ups or sliders). He makes up for this with his exaggerated upper-half follow through and finish.

Upper Half: Scherzer’s upper half begins with his hands getting brought over his head which is great for feeling tempo early in the delivery. As he brings his hands down, they meet his lift leg perfectly into his hand break (leading to incredible repeatability). After hand break Scherzer takes the ball down near his hip and “sets” it there slightly, giving a slight delay before bringing the ball up tight to his body. His arm gets up as his trunk is shifting posture forward without coming open… which is INSANE! This could be the reason for his exaggerated up ELECTRIC finish of his pitches.