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Do a mobility screen. If you have unique or imbalanced ROM attributes…find creative ways to incorporate them into your delivery. The tendency is to normalize everything. Instead, lean into those attributes and get into positions with timing funk that other pitchers can’t.

The irony of the splitter is that it comes easiest to pitchers with dead zone fastballs.

Often in an attempt to “add vert” and/or improve command pitchers mistakenly eliminate this beneficial quality that drives hitters crazy because of the resulting movement variance. Pitches can significantly outperform modeled Stuff+ grades if bimodal movement is involved.

Pitchers in medium and low spin efficiency ranges often have naturally occurring bimodal pitch movement. This manifests itself in varying amounts of “cut” and “backing up” qualities to their pitches that can be hard to predict from both a command and hitter’s perspective.

The strike zone is life. Your success is directly proportional to your willingness to be bold in the face of potential failure. Every time you throw a pitch in the strike zone you might fail…. …but you still have to commit to throwing strikes every single day without fail.

In baseball and in life, the willingness to:. • Purposefully Prepare.• Aggressively Attempt.• Frustratingly Fail.• Astutely Adapt.• Confidently Conquer.• Relentlessly Repeat. Separates the winners from the losers.

Changeups have the most creative freedom:. • Kick.• Split.• Circle.• Triton.• Screw.• Vulcan.• Palmball.• Hoffman.• Oneseam.• Pronation.• Wide-grip.• Airbender.• Seam Effects.• Velo Differential.• Overlapping Fingers. Find yours and throw it with conviction…

HOF’er Tom Glavine once told me:. “You won’t be a successful Major Leaguer until you don’t care about the hitter or the crowd or the cameras anymore. When you don’t care about anything but executing the next pitch - that is when you will begin to be great.”

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If your pitches miss armside there’s a strong chance you aren’t supinated (outside the baseball) enough at release. Just like Jai Alai wicker “cestas” have a curved end to keep the “pelota” from flying off armside, additional supination through release prevents armside misses.

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The solution is to use your generic approach angles less (typically your fastball) and to throw them as hard as possible when used. Pitchers with good arms are the most vulnerable to bad coaching (FB% is too high) because secondary approach angles are more productive overall.

Most pitchers can’t produce outlier flat approach angles in the strike zone. However, nearly all pitchers can create steep approach angles in and below the strike zone with their secondary pitches.

The best deliveries have strong synergies with the pitcher’s underlying anatomy, motor preferences, and arsenal requirements. Which are you?

Discus throwers also prioritize velocity but rotational quality and spin are a bigger factor in their ability to overwhelm elite hitters. Too much linear momentum or extension can be detrimental to achieving unique pitch shapes or leveraging seam effects consistently.