If you want to be good in baseball training, you also have to learn how to pitch. Until you get out of high school, you’re not going to have to develop more than two basic pitches, the fastball and curveball. And within that, you can refine further by turning each pitch into what are actually [...]
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In baseball training catchers might seem pretty invisible, but in fact, they are crucial members of the baseball team. Most young pitchers, those from about eight to 10 years old, take a stance when they receive the ball that’s much too wide. That happens, of course, because they don’t want the bat to hit them [...]
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Many coaches just don’t really understand correct baseball pitching mechanics, and therefore their pitchers spend a lot of their time performing drills that just aren’t very effective for improving pitching speed and accuracy. These coaches likely also have their players lifting weights to build up arm strength, but this isn’t necessary in order to throw [...]
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In baseball, the starting pitcher may stand in one spot for the vast duration of an inning, yet he’s probably the one player on the team who does the most physical work in a game. Pitching requires an incredible amount of attention, precision, and stamina. It is both a mentally and physically exhausting job, yet [...]
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Football is a contact sport, so it makes sense for players to want to bulk up with plenty of muscle and weight to fly across the field and make tackles. Baseball, on the other hand, is not a contact sport. While physical skills are certainly required by the game, brute strength isn’t one of them [...]
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Normal 0 By Jim Nettleton Is anyone else as tired as I am of hearing endlessly about pitch counts in major league baseball? Today’s multi-millionaire pitchers are apparently so fragile that throwing anything over 100 pitches is considered an act worthy of a Congressional Medal. These players are supposed to be the most well conditioned, [...]
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