Finch Palm Up at 3:00.....
Hillhouse transition from facing the pitcher at the top to facing the sky at 3:00..........
Alicia Hollowell going Palm Up at 3:00........
A good way to refer to this is the "lag position" down the circle..........
BM - with Finch and Hollowell's grainy video, its difficult to see the postion of the hand at 3:00 but looking at all of the pitching videos on this site and many others, I still do not see the hand "palm to the sky" (My definition "palm to the sky" is you could hold a tray of drinks on your palm and not spill them). What I see happening in almost all of these video clips is right after 12 o'clock (palm to catcher), the elbow starts to be "slotted" into the right hip causing the palm to "open up" into a position somewhere between "palm to the sky" and 3B. As the elbow reaches the hip the palm turns over to 3B and finally behind the ball at actual release.
Maybe "palm to the sky" is ideal at 3:00, I just haven't seen anyone who actually does it.
FYI - asking adults on this site to "review and report back" comes across as condesending. I appreciate your expertise and knowledge of the windmill pitch, without the attitude. Thanks.