Breaking down Benny Boy

Hardballtimes.com is an awesome baseball site. Lately they've become "awesomer" with their cogent and dead-on profiles of the Brewers top two pitchers, Yovani Gallardo and Ben Sheets.

The latest analysis is of Sheets. In it the writer points out what I've always contended. Benny is a brilliant pitcher, but his mechanics are all messed up. He throws with such violence, he almost always falls way off the mound toward first base after he delivers the pill.

Placing that much torque on his arm and imbalance on his body is probably causing all of the random injuries he is suffering through and has suffered through in his career. Can you change him, though... without adversely effecting his "stuff"? I doubt it.