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Reply to "Pitching Inside"

Originally Posted by Back foot slider:

 

Pitching inside is becoming less and less of a strategy, and low and away is the place most are taught to live.  With the advent of all of the body armour that batters are taking to the plate, and leaning over - they make the middle out pitch into a middle pitch, and the outside pitch becomes a middle out pitch.  I also think in the MLB with immediate warnings, etc. the pitchers are afraid of throwing inside too much...days of Gibson seeing someone inch up on the plate, and getting a reminder pitch that he owns the outside part of the plate are long gone.

 

I started at the very beginning teaching BFS Jr. to pitch inside, and he throws there with as much accuracy if not more than the low and away 2 seamer.  Also, a high inside strike on an 0-2 or 1-2 count is as lethal of a strikeout pitch as any breaking stuff.

 

You gotta teach them early.....

HBP is a consequence of pitching inside. The pitcher still needs to go inside and establish the inner half. This battle continues today. Of note.. MLB HBP in 2014 per PA is at a level not seen in over a Century. Maybe the intentional HBP is what you speak of re.. Gibson ?  

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