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It is not a quick pitch.
The pitcher is not required to "wind up." Jim Kaat stepped and threw for years without winding up.
The pitcher is not required to pitch the same way each time. He can wind on one pitch and not wind on another.
The quick pitch is also known as the quick return pitch, designed to sneak a pitch by a batter. It can happen as a ball is thrown back to the pitcher from another fielder and can also happen if a pitcher steps off the rubber and then steps back on a pitches before the batter is prepared (or without separating his hands).
What was originally described is not a balk as long as the pitcher stepped with his free foot and did not violate any provisions of 8.01 or 8.05.
Rich
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