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Fair point. Maybe sell some of those short stories?No one could afford you without a serious side hustle.
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Fair point. Maybe sell some of those short stories?No one could afford you without a serious side hustle.
He said this: "Your DD looks up to you. Of course, she is going to try to do what you tell her...she's a great kid. But, she's pitched hundreds of softball games, faced thousands of batters, and you don't know how to pitch. She knows more about pitching than you do, so STFU."
It's true that most coaches have no idea what pitching is about. A pitcher has to learn how to deal with well-meaning but ill-informed people.I’m going to print this on a hat and put it on every time one of DD’s coaches start talking. Think that’ll go over well?
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It's true that most coaches have no idea what pitching is about. A pitcher has to learn how to deal with well-meaning but ill-informed people.
A question for not just sluggers, but the group: From everything but a mechanics standpoint, do you think baseball pitching experience is close enough to have an idea? I think it is. I think I can know what my pitchers are going through out there because I remember going through similar situations.
Similar, but I think the softball experience is raised another notch because the setting is more intimate. Fans are closer to the players and almost always at ground level. Much easier to distract softball pitchers with comments and movements when they are right in line with looking at the catcher. Suzie Walkmaster cannot not hear Dad yelling to throw strikes. Baseball parents coaching from the stands get tired after a couple of innings trying to yell so far out to Johnny Rubberarm.A question for not just sluggers, but the group: From everything but a mechanics standpoint, do you think baseball pitching experience is close enough to have an idea? I think it is. I think I can know what my pitchers are going through out there because I remember going through similar situations.
I think so. Mental pressure, consistency, finding feels, exhaustion, focus, etc. Those are all things that pitchers of either sport share working through.
I also think working hitters is mostly the same. You have different pitches, but in the end you're talking fast/slow, in/out, high/low. I'm not, of course, suggesting parents should be getting involved in this stuff during games, but as a former pitcher (not at any kind of high level because I never threw hard), I've had a lot of conversations with some of my pitchers/catchers about how to attack hitters.
I think with pitching, a mechanical adjustment queue during the game from somebody who knows what they are talking about ,and knows the pitcher, can be helpful. Pitching isn't reactionary. With hitting, which is reactionary, I am not sure anything you can say during the game with regards to mechanics will help. Approach, sure, but not mechanical.