Pitching coaches giving hitting advice?

bayoukid – You are absolutely correct, what is a pitching coach doing giving any instruction, other than pitching instruction, after all, all his job is to get his pitchers to get you out!

When the recruiting coach (also the pitching coach) came out to evaluate my son to get him to attend the school he is currently at, as he was hitting oppo shots in right center and over the right center fence, he stopped the session and said it looked like he was trying to force his shots to right field. He asked if he could just let loose and pull the ball, the next shot went way over the left center fence! He obviously knew what he was talking about.

What it is interesting he knew a lot about hitters and hiting and possibly how to pitch to them to get them out!

What is also interesting is, you are talking down a coach at a major university and you are a senior looking to play at a college, which may not have yet signed with a college.

Bottom line, I would suggest try to hit anyway a college coach (even a pitching coach), who may get you onto a roster, wants! It may be a test to see how coach able you are……

My son's college pitching coach was a former mlb pitcher who holds some homerun records at the college he attended, I give my 13yo hitting advice and I'd be very surprised if there was a college pitching coach who knew less than I do about hitting. One would hope a pitching coach at a major college would be quite knowledgeable in the art of hitting as well because they study the game and have been around it for so long. Sometimes a coach will want you to exaggerate a mechanic if he see's something that will help you.

I would think pitching coaches would be more into the "theory" of hitting in terms of how to approach a pitcher rather than be into the mechanics (rotational/linear) aspect

It can never hurt to hear about hitting from a pitching coach. Finding out how they would try to get you out based on your swing and where they thought you had holes in your swing would be very valuable info in my opinion.

I work with a pitching coach who translates his genius at getting hitters out to hitters by identifying their weaknesses. The hitters have responded favorably.

believe it or not even pitching coaches have played the game. i know more than a few pitchers who are very good hitters. just because i'm a plumber doesn't mean i can't biuld a deck. always listen.

Homerun, I see where you are coming from with me talking down a college coach it's just that he completely contradicted what the hitting coach had told me a few minutes earlier. I understand that pitching coaches know what they are talking about as I am taking lessons from a pitching coach right now (with hitting). This was an anecdote and in no means meant to insult the coach on his knowledge of the game. Maybe he just saw something different than the hitting coach. By the way the guy may have been from a different college or even a high school, all he told me was that he was a pitching coach.

bayoukid:

I agree with TRHit [which I really hate to do]. If the pitching coach is saying to you something like "if you do that I can get you out by pitching you such and such every time" you had better listen and take note. If he is saying, "if you swing with *fill in the blank* of your body that way you lose *fill in the blank*" and your hitting coach says otherwise; listen to your hitting coach.

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