Pitching and Pitchers Discussion Looking for the slowest pitchers.......

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Here we go again, High School ball. Travel ball player up to the plate, 3 strikes and she's out. Player walks back to dugout, parents sit there and make comments in disbelief. Pitcher is blamed because she throws to slow, REALLY? If I were to coach a legendary travel ball team, I would recruit one these girls for my starting pitcher. I think, I would go down in the Softball Coaches HOF!

 

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Here we go again, High School ball. Travel ball player up to the plate, 3 strikes and she's out. Player walks back to dugout, parents sit there and make comments in disbelief. Pitcher is blamed because she throws to slow, REALLY? If I were to coach a legendary travel ball team, I would recruit one these girls for my starting pitcher. I think, I would go down in the Softball Coaches HOF!

:lmao:

 

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Isn't it amazing how girls/families can find a way to blame others. lol.

FYI, a mental trick I use for girls in this frame of mind; tell them to take every at bat this game with the attitude they are going to sit on the change up and react to a fastball. Sometimes you can actually get them to be patient enough to wait and hit the ball. Doesn't work with older girls cause they know everything. lol.

 

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Seeing that it is Sunday....AMEN!!!

 

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My daughter pitches for a team that carries a pitcher that is really slow, and we saw an even slower pitcher yesterday. The pitcher is used for teams that cannot slow down on a pitcher. Often we see early substitutions to replace batters who cannot slow down on a pitch.

 

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Probly the hardest thing to teach in hitting is waiting on the slow pitch but once it is learned dd should be able to hit to every side of field.

 

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Greg Maddux, Tim Wakefield... need I say more?

 

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Alot of travel players in our area these days playing High School ball..Just my opinion but I think alot of our High School coaches arent utilizing the slower pitchers....They can be heck on the girls who are used to hitting the faster pitchers and its not easy for even our better batters to wait on those pitches..

 

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Isn't it amazing how girls/families can find a way to blame others. lol.

FYI, a mental trick I use for girls in this frame of mind; tell them to take every at bat this game with the attitude they are going to sit on the change up and react to a fastball. Sometimes you can actually get them to be patient enough to wait and hit the ball. Doesn't work with older girls cause they know everything. lol.

Very smart.

Greg Maddux, Tim Wakefield... need I say more?

You nailed it Sammy.

 

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Too many kids/coaches /parents jack the machine up to 60 mph and are impressed.No disrespect to parents of pitchers but high speed pitchers are few and far between.Some out there are though,but if not plus 60 mph,off-speed may be the route to watch out for?
1-Pitching coaches get paid-they do pump up the attitude of a pitcher
2-Many pitchers look fast on the gun but put into game situation,do they slow down for control?
3-Live pitching for practice,machine doesn't help-used to hit meatballs.
4-If geeked for faster pitching,see the ball late and try to go opposite field.
5-Discipline in the box,expect change but be ready for fast.
6-Front toss behind screen.
7-Hit a variety of speeds
8-Opposite field is better hit than a long out-unless it's over the fence?

Name dropping,saw Buckeye Heat older 16's and 18's in the fall-hire thier hitting coach.Change-up results in Homerun.Curveball is right center gapper.Fastball inside is hard up the middle!They have educated hitters

 

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Name dropping,saw Buckeye Heat older 16's and 18's in the fall-hire thier hitting coach.Change-up results in Homerun.Curveball is right center gapper.Fastball inside is hard up the middle!They have educated hitters

Where do rise balls and drop balls go?....:lmao:

 

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Even when we played rec when we faced teams that lobbed the ball in there it was difficult for them to hit. Those are young players who are just figuring things out. I could see if a much slower pitcher disrupts your swings for one at bat but on the second you should be good to go.

 

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Where do rise balls and drop balls go?....:lmao:

If it is the young lady from Urbana throwing her rise ball.... it ain't going nowhere !!!!

 

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I tell you by eperience that when you are used to faster pitching and you come up against a, what they used to call a "thumber" in the old days it was very difficult to adjust.

I played high level fastpitch back in the 80's in and saw some of the best players in the world struggle against the occasional "thumber".

 

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I can actually beat this one.

The coach of my daughters Middle School team is mother of the SS. This girl along with many on the team all play pretty high level travel.

The SS (in travel she plays 1st and OF) has 5 throwing errors to 1st in 2 games. The "coach" yells to her " you need to stop worrying about who is catching the ball and just throw it hard...." followed up by her telling me that the problem is that her daughter is just so much better than the 1st basemen and her daughter is "worried" about hurting the other girls if she throws full power.............and before you ask the throws were just bad, the problem is that her daughter has HORRIBLE footwork. So she does not properly set herself for the throw. In practice when she does not feel rushed she takes longer and makes good throws. Also, while she is butchering the position she is probably one of the best options on the team. I think another girls would do much better but she does not play travel and there is ZERO chance the coach would put this girl in at SS over her daughter. Plus the coach hates this other girls parents...........it is a bad cae of MOMMY Ball. Luckily my daugher just plays 3rd and keeps her mouth shut.

speechless............I walk away.........

 

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It never fails, last year in summer TB slow pitchers always messed up batters timing for awhile. Seen this exact thing happen this weekend with dds HS doubleheader. In the first game most of the girls on her team struggled with the slow pitching and lost 1st game 2-0. The second game their bats finally woke up or waited longer and they won 8-2.

 

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Luckily, my DD was taught to throw a "slow pitch"! Whew!

 

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Here we go again, High School ball. Travel ball player up to the plate, 3 strikes and she's out. Player walks back to dugout, parents sit there and make comments in disbelief. Pitcher is blamed because she throws to slow, REALLY? If I were to coach a legendary travel ball team, I would recruit one these girls for my starting pitcher. I think, I would go down in the Softball Coaches HOF!

LMAO! I think you are right about trying to recruit the slowest pitchers available, it does seem to cause chaos with some of the big fastball hitting teams!!

 

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Solution is simple. Move them up in the box when the pitcher is slow and back in the box when the pitcher is fast LMAO !!!!!!!!!

 

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Hitter will tell you that a batter needs to stay in the same place 'measured off from the plate, the same time, every time' - the optimal place for hitting a pitch that is a 'strike' or in the 'hitting zone' - the pitches speed does not matter as it has to enter the kill zone at some point - the batter needs to attack it if it does ...