It looks like someone about to fail a lie detector test. Or perhaps the first rumbles of an oncoming earthquake on a seismograph.
It’s really something much less fraught, at least as far as Reds reliever Drew Storen is concerned. It’s a graph from BrooksBaseball.net of his average arm slot, game-by-game for his entire career.
From 2009 to last season, it remains relatively constant from one appearance to another. Early in his career, he released the ball at about six feet in the air. In more recent seasons, he’s settled in at about 5.5 feet.
But this season, the graph started spazzing out.