How does she throw her true change?About 10% is all I am looking for. She already has a true change up that is 20+% slower. We are trying to nest another speed between the change up and her drop ball.
How does she throw her true change?About 10% is all I am looking for. She already has a true change up that is 20+% slower. We are trying to nest another speed between the change up and her drop ball.
Same 4 seam grip as her drop. Hand is on the side of the ball rather than behind the ball at release. I’m sure he didn’t invent it, but this is the “Rick Pauly” change. If thrown well, ball drops and tails away. Can be hard for batter to tell the difference between her drop and the change, as the action looks similar.How does she throw her true change?
Where did I (or anyone else) say 20%? Or 10% or any %? Am I missing where you saw the % he's looking for?I don't understand how simply palming the ball is going to take off 20% of the speed of the pitch. Best I ever see it do is take about 5%-10% off which is not enough.
My daughter was taught the same mechanic for her drop change as described by Hillhouse, now she is 601 and has long fingers. IMO when thrown correctly it was almost un hit able, just like it dropped of a table. Not only was it hart to hit, catching it as not a lot of fun either.More hand equals less speed, but you already said she has small hands. So I presume she has all the fingers on the ball. Palm too? If not, suck it back deeper into the palm. If she's already doing that, your only additional option for speed control (without slowing the body down too) is the tightness of the grip. Squeeze the ball. Be prepared, in all likelihood, this will mess up her release. Squeezing the ball will be akin to holding on longer, the pitches will go high. That's ok. The more she works at it, the more the control will reemerge. Adding knuckles to the ball is another way that pitchers add hand and squeeze the ball tighter, the reason I wouldn't advocate that is because adding knuckles usually makes the pitch easier to see (and pick) from the plate.
Not sure where I got that, my bad!Where did I (or anyone else) say 20%? Or 10% or any %? Am I missing where you saw the % he's looking for?