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J jhoff10+ posts
hi im wondering i am a right handed 14 year old middle school pitcher and i have a fastball that is consistently around 77 and can get it up to about 81-82 on a good daywith late lateral and vertical drop. i also have a sharp breaking curve that i can locate pretty well and can get in the low 70s. i am starting to mix in a slider and change in my repertoire around 76 and 70 respectively. i am wondering, am i on track to have decent high school stuff and can a pitcher with good stuff get noticed regardless of their size?
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H HotCornerDad100+ posts
Welcome to HS Baseball Web! Big Grin

Sounds like you sitting right along with my 14yo, I won't let him throw a slider 'till he is 17. A pitcher that throws hard will get noticed, a big pitcher that throws hard will get noticed sooner. Focus on your location, change of speeds, and moving the ball around the zone and let the rest take care of it self.
J jhoff10+ posts
thank you for your help, and to anybody out there who might know, the speeds i posted above, is that a solid average speed for my age, a little slower, a little faster? also, would a knuckleball be a good idea to practice over the off-season because ive thrown a few in warmups that have looked pretty good and i sometimes float a couple in there when i'm not throwing my best breaking stuff and they usually catch the hitters off-guard and work
H HotCornerDad100+ posts
A knuckler is a tough pitch to learn, I would say that learning off season is best and don't use in competition until you really feel you can be effective with it. Watch Wakefield throw, when he hangs it he gets whip-lash from watching balls leave the yard. The knuckler like the splitter has to drop out of or low through the zone. Hang your splitter and see what happens to it.
justbaseballjustbaseball10,000+ posts
jhoff - If that is indeed your velocity and you have good command, you are right on track to be a very successful HS pitcher. Thats pretty much all you should be thinking about right now...how to make your HS JV or Varsity team. With what you describe, you will have a good chance of that by your sophomore year, maybe even freshman year depending on what else your HS team has returning.

Best of luck!
J jhoff10+ posts
thanx..im shooting for JV this year because our varsity team is stacked with seniors but i think i need to develop something really off-speed like..have you ever seen randy wolf's curveball? it runs in the low 60's abd makes his fastball look 5-10 MPH faster because in the back of their mind, their thinking of the curve...this is what im probably going to need to develop because most of my pitches have like a 10-12 MPH range. thanks again for the help Smile

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