In the comments section of Part 1, JC asked about 2005 and perhaps tracking down when things began to "go wrong."

After visiting various sites, a number of people have also brought up the injury questions - I believe Hudson has injured his left oblique in 2004.

Luckily, I had a decent clip from May 2005 to work with and here is the resulting match-up:





2005 Hudson on left, 2002 on right.  Both ~92 mph fastballs.


I took out a still shot of the arm angle (horizontal vs more vertical):




2005 Hudson's shoulders are definately more horizontal.  Note difference in height of the glove also.


And stills showing the "balance" as I did in Part 1:




Generally, seems like the similar issues to 2006.  To what degree is nearly impossible to tell from video like this, but it is a good scratch of the surface.

I wonder how much of the differences did have to do with the oblique injury.  Whether adjustments were made voluntarily or not, or if it was just a sub-conscious self-protection thing.  Maybe only Hudson himself knows the answer to those.