quote:Originally posted by baseball13mom:
One of my issues is pitching practice (bull pen), what is the purpose pitching twice a week for 30-50 pitches?.
Because generally bullpen sessions are not meant to build stamina except for maybe spring training or something comparable for amatuer players.
A bullpen session is meant for a "touch-n-feel" in between starts. Or maybe to work on a specific part of the pitchers game...breaking pitch, location, mechanics, etc.
From your post, I take it you would recommend a 80+ pitch bullpen to help in a 100 pitch game outing? I get this from you marathon analogy.
This would put a pitcher well over 300 pitches per week for 1 start, not to mention what that pitch total might be for a 2 start week.
Food for thought.
I agree with you that there is no substitution for hard work.
But there are very few Tim Lincecum's in the world. Tim has a natural
God given talent. Certainly work helped his game, but you could take every pitcher in the DFW area this year and get them to work as hard as anyone ever has in the game.........
Chances are, you ain't getting another Tim Lincecum out of that bunch.