Is it bad...
by Slurvey
on Oct 19, 2008 9:44 PM PDT
If I decide to change my mechanics?
I've been throwing in the 3/4 arm slot for a while with mild sucess but I've been throwing at a higher arm slot lately and my pitching motion is more fluid and my velocity has jumped a little but are there any repercussion of me doing that? Then is it better to work out of the stretch or wind up I've been mainly pitching out of the wind up (my wind up is kinda like Tim Lincecum's) and if I switch to the stretch will I be horribly messed up? Then I have a FB/CU/SLU/CUT pitch mix people say a slurve is just a bad slider so should I drop it? Thoughts anybody? (I origanlly posted this on LL and the redirected me to here.)
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Inherently, there's nothing wrong with that.
Changing your mechanics can be good or bad depending on what your old and new mechanics look like.
A slurve isn’t necessarily a bad slider. It could be a bad curve ball, too. The up side is that it can be a great breaking pitch if it has bite and is thrown with sound mechanics. Again, this isn’t something that can really be answered in an online forum.
Your other questions really can’t be answered without visual analysis. I’d recommend finding a pitching coach near you who can work with you in person on these things. The difficulty is finding someone who actually knows things and isn’t feeding you 70% b.s.
It's filed under 'D'... for donut.
by NoNameOnCard on Oct 23, 2008 12:18 AM PDT 0 recs
As long as you can
locate with the fastball and change you’ll be good to go. If you can locate with the curve and the slurve as well, youre golden. As always, work off the fastball.
As far as mechanics, you shouldn’t have any real problems.
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by 306008 on Nov 3, 2008 12:46 PM PST 0 recs
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