Hopefully some of the experts here can help him find some extra gas !!! PM for link if interested
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It seems that the glove hand flys free on most of the pitches rather than being brought back to the chest.
Not sure about extra gas but his arm speed is noticeably slower on his change and curve.
Actually Elroy, the BF people thought he did maintain armspeed on the offspeed pitches. I'm not sure when or why he started letting the glove fly, prefer he didn't just to be in a better fielding position. How might this effect velocity?
quote:How might this effect velocity?
He is opening up and losing leverage by doing this and it will have an impact on velocity. There is a saying in pitching coach circles that "the glove side is for the coach and the arm is for the pitcher." You can not see it well from the angle you have so it is hard to tell, and you really need to load video into a system where you can look at it in slo mo from the front view and side view. Again this video is not the best for critiquing mechanics.
Two things I can see from the video, his leg drive (front leg) looks like it is too much "around his body" IE have him be more linear toward the plate and drive his heal toward his target, it's not a huge thing but it might help him some, and his glove side is wrong as WapakDad pointed out. He should be ending up with his glove toward his chest. The way to get a pitcher to feel this is to take his glove out in front of him and have him rotate his thumb up as he brings it to his chest. Old school pitching instructors used to teach this glove pull down, which is all wrong now days they teach glove to chest.
Overall he looks pretty good I think with a few minor adjustments his velo will come up 2-4MPH. I am kind of surprised a pitching coach somewhere along the way has not mentioned this to him.
BTW can the hitting video, no one is going to recruit him for his bat, he should focus only on LHP again IMO.
What is his present age, height, weight, velocity?
16, 5'9", 140#, 79
He seems to have decent velocity considering his age and size. Perhaps he hasn't finished growing yet and will be able to tack on more velocity with more skeletal maturity. Work on 1 mph at a time and be patient with each new small gain in velocity. A gain of 1-2 mph over severl months works up to be quite substancial over the course of a year and a half, perhaps a total gain of 8-10 mph. Give a PM to BUM, his son, about the same size and velocity at his age gained that 8-10 mph just working steady gaining 1 mph at a time. His philosophy was year round throwing long toss.
Thanks to those who took the time to respond, he appreciates all the help.
