If anyone can come on here and teach someone how to make their fastball sink I want to get to know you. There are many factors that make the fastball sink. It is vastly due to something that pitcher does naturally. They did not get taught how to do it. It just does it. They can't tell you how they do it. They just do it. They don't know what causes their fastball to sink. They can't teach yours to sink. If they could they would be getting paid a lot of money to teach it.
Can a pitcher make some type of adjustment that would add sink? Or make an adjustment that would cause it to sink? Yes. What is that adjustment? Who knows. Who in the world knows that? What would cause one pitchers fastball to add sink might cause anothers to do something else or nothing at all.
Release, arm slot, velo, finger length, how the ball comes off, etc etc etc etc. Play around with the grip. Play around with release. Cut an inch off one of your fingers? Seriously some guys can do things others can not. And most of the time in the vast majority of times its simply something they can do naturally others can not do. If these things could be taught wouldn't everyone have a hel of a sinking fastball?
I went back and saw that NCUleft has been rude to others here in the past, so I wasn't surprised. He may have been coached at it as well.
I thank you for the support.
NCU,
You are a college pitcher, correct, why not just go back and ask your coach what you need to work on, as a lefty (did you all know he is a lefty)I am sure he can make better recommendations watching you than some taking guesses as to what is best for you.
Where my son sits in his career has nothing to do with what I know and don't know, it doesn't take a man, woman or a rocket scientist to know that a successful pitcher is usually one that works with his strengths and ability, not what others found worked best for their very young pitchers, that is my issue here and always will be.
I thank you for the support.
NCU,
You are a college pitcher, correct, why not just go back and ask your coach what you need to work on, as a lefty (did you all know he is a lefty)I am sure he can make better recommendations watching you than some taking guesses as to what is best for you.
Where my son sits in his career has nothing to do with what I know and don't know, it doesn't take a man, woman or a rocket scientist to know that a successful pitcher is usually one that works with his strengths and ability, not what others found worked best for their very young pitchers, that is my issue here and always will be.
CM,
I just saw your post, thank you for saying it better than I did.
I just saw your post, thank you for saying it better than I did.
quote:Originally posted by NCULEFT:
anyone who takes anything said to them personal on a message board needs to grow a pair
Oh, I misunderstood this thread. I thought your problem was fastball sink. My bad.
