Candice Beards
Forever a terp!
- Jul 13, 2014
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Has anyone experienced their daughters going through this? Mental or mechanical issues? Your thoughts?
If yips means the player knows the ball is going somewhere, who knows where, except where she is throwing it DD went through it. No one sitting beyond 1st base was safe, I was thinking of handing out face mask to the crowd before the game.
I had her concentrate on her back foot. Don’t worry about where the ball goes, how was your back foot? I am not sure she was positioning her back foot any better but she stopped worrying about where the ball was going. It disappeared as quickly as is appeared. One day it was gone.
Knoblauch Disease.
100% mental. Other MLBers of note who quickly come to mind - Steve Sax (another NYY - 2B) had it before Chuck. Mackey Sasser (NYM - C) couldn't throw back to the pitcher. Jon Lester (as of this minute BOS - P) can't throw to 1B. Some get over it, some slowly, some don't before its too late.
As a first baseman, I had pitchers in college who had to windmill the ball to me at first when they fielded a ground ball. If they threw overhand it went 10 feet above my head, in the dirt at my feet, or at full speed from 5 feet away. The severity of their erraticness correlated to the severity of their being a head case on the mound. Thank goodness for mouth guards.
100% mental. Other MLBers of note who quickly come to mind - Steve Sax (another NYY - 2B) had it before Chuck. Mackey Sasser (NYM - C) couldn't throw back to the pitcher. Jon Lester (as of this minute BOS - P) can't throw to 1B. Some get over it, some slowly, some don't before its too late.