Baseball pitching advice

[ciscokid1]

Rudedawg, good posts. But where did you play, and what makes you so qualified? I'm not being a smartass just intrested in your experience.

 

[HappyScrappy]

heh heh, yeah, wrote that wrong - basically meant you shouldn't be releasing until the foot is down (watch little league kids and you will see a suprising number doing shit like that).

as for leg kick - I was saying for speed - not for getting guys off the base.
you name one dude that doesn't do it, but I'm sure you can name 50 guys that do do it.

and I'm confused, you were in the pros and you never threw a football to warm up? coaches had us doing that all the time - fuck - there is even a fucking upper deck shot of nolan ryan (who I still maintain is little) throwing a football.

anyway, not gonna argue with you, you obviously know moreif you were in the pros - I was just trying to recall what the better pitching coaches used to tell me.

 

[rudedawg]

heh heh, yeah, wrote that wrong - basically meant you shouldn't be releasing until the foot is down (watch little league kids and you will see a suprising number doing shit like that).


as for leg kick - I was saying for speed - not for getting guys off the base.
you name one dude that doesn't do it, but I'm sure you can name 50 guys that do do it.

and I'm confused, you were in the pros and you never threw a football to warm up? coaches had us doing that all the time - fuck - there is even a fucking upper deck shot of nolan ryan (who I still maintain is little) throwing a football.

anyway, not gonna argue with you, you obviously know moreif you were in the pros - I was just trying to recall what the better pitching coaches used to tell me.

True about the kids throwing all different kinds of funky ways.

My point about leg kick is.... you don't gain speed from it..... that's why I brought up the slide step. Guys that do the slide step don't lose any velocity. If they did they wouldn't do it, because throwing quality pitches is always better than giving up a bomb because you are worried about a guy on first base. And that's also why I mentioned Rob Nenn. He doesn't pick his foot up much at all and he throws 100MPH. It's all about where you stop your momentum and rocket it forward. As for naming 50 guys that don't do it..... almost all do it.. especially starters... it is a timing thing and the only time you would be able to do it would be out of the stretch. I am not disagreeing with you that most do it..... I am saying it is NOT where you get 90% of your velocity from.

Never threw a football to warm up. Probably the reason you saw Nolan doing it was because Tom House was the pitching coach for the Rangers and he made throwing a football part of his staffs regime. I don't know how you throw a baseball but if you throw a baseball from the L position and try to throw a football the same way the ball will come out like a floating duck.

As for Nolan being little..... compared to who? Other Big League pitchers? Or people in general? I would bet that he is bigger than 50% of all the big league pitchers right now.