1st year 14 pitcher

[starsnuffer]

I actually have a pitcher with a coach that wants her to locate her drop high.
He'll call drop high in or high out.

I've asked her if maybe she was getting her signals mixed up and her dad said no, he really wants them there.
Actually this was her old coach, she is looking into another team.

A high drop ball is exactly the same pitch that a single wheeled pitching machine pitches. . . in otherwords, nearly every batter has seen this pitch a bazillion times and knows exactly how to smash the living daylights out of it.

-W

 

[sluggers]

A high drop ball is exactly the same pitch that a single wheeled pitching machine pitches. . . in otherwords, nearly every batter has seen this pitch a bazillion times and knows exactly how to smash the living daylights out of it.

No, it's not, and no they don't...assuming the pitcher is throwing a good drop ball. Of course, most kids don't have a good drop ball (or a good curve, screw or rise).

You can throw drop balls for a strike. They appear to be an above belt high fastball, and then they drop sharply to the knees as the ball crosses the plate.

Most pitchers don't have a sharp break on the drop.

a good dropball needs a riseball just like a fastball need

No, it doesn't. Most kids are lucky to master one breaking pitch. Watch a college softball game, turn down the sound, and you decide without listening to anyone else which pitches are breaking and which ones aren't.

The announcers say everything is breaking, when, in fact, nothing is breaking.