LHP toe touch

My son is a lefty too. He has had a great deal of success employing the pitching bio-mechanics being taught by the National Pitching Association (http://www.nationalpitching.net). They have a very good online course your son can take to get him started. The key is to keep everything moving together is sequence, and fluid timing.

I encourage you to check this out before trying too many other things.

Wouldn't ever do it. Buying time for your arm to catch up, is that what this is supposed to do?

Good way to catch a spike and blow something up (knee/ankle)

How about staying back....separate your hands over the rubber.....How about focusing a little more on getting the ball down.....

Too dangerous and uneccesary in my opinion.

The toe touch is simply forcing the lower half to slow down to buy more time for the upper half. From that standpoint, anything that slows down the lower half (e.g. knee lift) could do the same job. But if the pitcher is quick enough to the plate with the toe touch, then you could argue that he is quicker than he needs to be without it. In that case, instead of using a slide step and adding in a toe touch, I'd rather see the pitcher use mechanics that are more similar to what he uses with no runners on base (e.g. more of a knee lift).

Thanks all. I heard somewhere that Andrew Miller is a toe toucher. Can anyone confirm or refute that?

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Originally posted by Roger Tomas:
In that case, instead of using a slide step and adding in a toe touch, I'd rather see the pitcher use mechanics that are more similar to what he uses with no runners on base (e.g. more of a knee lift).

Texan Son used a full knee lift with runners on, he just lifted the knee more quickly. This left the lower/upper body timing unchanged (as the upper body doesn't start going until the knee starts down after leg lift), while decreasing the time to the plate.

Either break the hands later or start with the feet closer together.

Is it possible for the toe touch be a borderline balk?