How much break for a decent drop curve?

[sluggers]

Sparky, again, you have to read my comments in context.

My DD threw lots of drop curve in college. But, she also had a big vertical movement pitch that she threw. Your DD threw drop curves, but she had a big vertical movement pitch.

That is the point I was trying to make...if a pitcher has only a drop curve in college, she will not be successful. Every good college pitcher has either a killer drop or a killer rise. If a kid doesn't have one, she won't pitch much.

Some pitching coaches teach the drop curve, curve or screw (if there is such a thing as a screw) like they will carry a kid in college. They won't. (And I'm specifically thinking of a certain peanut butter flavored coach in Chicagoland.)

 

[tojo]

There is such a thing as a screw and there was a young lady who played her college career for a major D-1 college and was runner-up in the WCWS and she also threw a curve and drop curve. Her name was Stacey Nelson at the University of Florida and her go-to pitch was a screwball and it carried her four years in college and a spot on Team USA National team and NPF.

 

[CoachFP]

Tojo, it is a step left and throw right pitch. A hard fastball inside is even better than the "so called" screwball. She is the exception not the rule.

 

[tojo]

Tojo, it is a step left and throw right pitch. A hard fastball inside is even better than the "so called" screwball. She is the exception not the rule.

I agree that alot of coachs don't understand how to teach the screwball to move and believe it is a step left and throw right pitch, but a hard fastball is hardly better than what you call the so called screwball. I disagree that Stacey Nelson being an exception to the rule. I was responding to Sluggers' post about the screwball won't carry a kid to college in absolute terms is factually incorrect.