Baseball: Baseball Pitching Speeds
Monday, den 23. June 2008Baseball pitching speeds are important but they arent everything. A real mistake is to try to get your velocity up before you perfect your mechanics. Young pitchers can throw out their arms trying to throw too hard. Part of pitching is admitting your limits. Just because you cant throw as fast [...]
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Baseball: Youth Baseball Pitching
Sunday, den 22. June 2008Youth baseball pitching is where the pros are made. In fact, many of the pros who are playing today started out as pitchers. Why? Because they were the ones who could throw the hardest. Pitching was a natural position. Think of how hard it is to throw quickly from third [...]
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Baseball: Curveball Pitches
Saturday, den 21. June 2008Curveball pitches are the hardest to perfect, both for pitchers and hitters. How many times do you hear about a hitter who cant hit breaking pitches? Basically, if you cant hit a breaking pitch, you wont have much of a life in baseball. If you cant throw curveball pitches, you will most [...]
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Baseball: Cut Fastballs
Friday, den 20. June 2008Cut fastballs are sometimes hard to differentiate from sliders. I have to be honest–when a baseball announcer says, A cutter, low and inside, I cannot always tell the difference. There are some subtle differences between baseball pitches. The main difference is in how they are thrown.
Maybe the confusion is that a lot [...]
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Baseball: Fastball Throws
Thursday, den 19. June 2008Fastball throws are where every young pitcher should start. First you start with just playing catch in the backyard. Then you throw it a little harder, then a little harder still. Maybe Dad buys a catchers mitt. Soon youre throwing the ball as hard as you can, trying to hit spots.
Its [...]
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