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    Softball Slider???

    The wildest thing about SSW pitches is that if you get the spin axis correct you can flip the seams 180 and the ball will break the other way. You get two pitches that break in opposite directions with identical spin. Normally we think of breaking pitches as having horizontal movement, however...
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    Softball Slider???

    This is a very deep rabbit hole. Here is a link to a series of videos that do a good job of explaining how seams affect ball flight, scroll down to see the videos. The website itself, BaseballAero, has a section on SSW that goes into detail...
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    Shoulders Hips and Whip!!! She just CANT GET IT!

    Always a tough choice, pitch in games or stick to working on mechanics. In her case since her basic technique is pretty sound I would let her pitch. Keep in mind that some pitchers rely on IR and some more on arm circle speed for velocity, she may be an arm circle girl.
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    Softball Slider???

    If you want to talk in general terms the clock is fine, but if you want to talk about pitch design you need to be more specific. A 'classic 3-9' curve ball with a vertical spin axis will not have as much late break as a 3-9 curve with the spin axis tilted forward about 20 degrees. When working...
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    Softball Slider???

    The baseball slider is rarely thrown with 'pure' bullet spin, just go to Baseball Savant, type in slider and look at the actual spin. Here is Chris Sale's profile as an example. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/chris-sale-519242?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb Using the clock...
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    Softball Slider???

    Okay, fair enough. How about Aaron Bummer, the MLB leader in exit velocity and barrel percentage combined. His favorite pitch is his sweeper, 82 mph. Check out his pitch movement profile. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/aaron-bummer-607481?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb
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    Softball Slider???

    Why?? Is there any evidence showing this to be the case? Paul Skenes was the starter for the National League All Stars this year, here is a link to his Baseball Savant page, if you scroll down there is a 'pie chart' showing the movement profile of all of his pitches, there is very little...
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    Softball Slider???

    Are you saying that the bat is horizontal when it's in the contact zone?
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    Softball Slider???

    Someone has to explain to me why 'flat' break is bad. A slider is thrown with bullet spin, 'gyro' in baseball lingo. It breaks sideways and also has some downward movement. The pitch I am talking about has mostly horizontal break but it has fastball velocity, I forgot to mention that. Right, I...
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    Softball Slider???

    For a couple of years now I have been working with a 12U pitcher who throws a unique curveball. She doesn't know how she does it and can't repeat it when asked. She is very good at noticing break and can throw a legitimate riseball with 80% backspin as well as a pure top spin drop. So she has an...
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    Help me solve this frontside heavy issue

    There is one other thing you can try, I have had some success with it for girls that get out on the front leg too much. Go to a baseball field and have her experiment with pitching onto the up slope on the back of the mound. Having that elevated landing zone will work against the tendency to...
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    Help me solve this frontside heavy issue

    She has a drive issue, she is quad dominant and the glutes are not engaged enough. One symptom, she drives up too much and not out enough. If you slow the video down you can see that as she finishes her push-off her hips are going up, not out. Essentially she should feel like her push off is...
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    Curveball speed

    Taking Tango at his word that her two best pitches are an off speed drop and change up I'm wondering if putting effort into developing a third off speed pitch is the way to go. But, since they never call her fastball maybe they see her as a 'junk ball' pitcher. A question for me would be what is...
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    Curveball speed

    That's questionable coaching to me.
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    Rawlings HOH DCT or A2000 Amanda Chisester?

    I have a 12U pitching student who just bought the Romero A2000 at Dick's for $199, she had to show the store the website price because the store had it priced in the mid 200's. I have it now and I'm breaking it in for her. The only issue she had with it is that there is a small 'holster' that...
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    Curveball speed

    Paying attention to where the hits are going can be a clue as to where the pitches are located. If she is hitting the low outside corner the solid contact should be to right field (assuming RH hitters). What does she say about the pitch location when it comes to solid hits? Educating her about...
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    Curveball speed

    Curveball velocity typically depends on the type of curve, palm up or roll over, (drop curve), with the roll over being faster, the palm up being slower. But it is very much an individual thing, I have seen off speed roll overs. I am very much a skeptic when it comes to throwing spin pitches...
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    Need Glove advice

    Have her try wearing a batting glove.
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    Training the Swing-No Swing Decision

    Of course they're striding!! 11 and 12 year old kids are not hitting high 50's fastballs from 35ft without some kind of timing mechanism. They are stepping when the coach starts to drop the ball into the machine. The problem is that 90% of the pitches are belt high, same location, same speed...
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    Training the Swing-No Swing Decision

    I'm not a statistician and math makes my head hurt. My common sense tells me that a .327 batting average is about 1 hit for every 3 at bats, and 80,236 first pitches should mean the same number of at bats, that should be around 26,000 hits, not 4644. But, as my Grandpa used to say 'there are...

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