Does anyone have any cool pitches i could learn 2 throw?
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a pitch that is easy to learn and is one of the most effective pitches in baseball is the cutter... It is a fastball that moves like a slider and will make a left handed hitter miss by pitching it down the middle so it cuts in missing the barrel of the bat... and on a right handed hitter it cuts down the middle to the outside either making him miss or just making him not able to get the good part of the bat on the ball... for a right handed hitter if you throw it at him it will catch the inside corner of the strike zone also and be a claaed strike... (all this assuming you throw right handed)to throw it all you do it hold it like a two-seamed fastball... your index finger and middle finger going along the middle seams where the seams are narrow instead of wide... you move your middle finger over to the right seam so it is touching your index finger... SO you should have both of your fingers going along the right side of the seams where the two seams are narrow... Keep your thumb where it is at OR move it a inch to the right for extra movement but this may make it feel uncomfortable...
now that you have the grip, it should feel comfortable... THE MOST IMPORTANT PART is the way you throw it... put all of your pressure on the index finger and hardly any on your middle finger, your thumb is nuetral... It is almost like throwing it with 2 fingers (thumb and index finger) but the middle finger is also needed to make it possible to hold without it falling out of your hand at high speed. Throw it exactly how you would throw a fastball and naturally because of this grip and having pressure on your index finger it will cut very sharply... This pitch should go 3-5 mph less that your fastball and cut sharply to the left if you are a right handed pitcher... It will not hurt your arm at all since it is thrown like a fastball... I use it and it works very well, probably my best and favorite pitch to use. Study how Mariano Rivera uses it to become the best closer of all time... this pitch if thrown correctly is lethal... also very easy to throw for a strike... since it is easy to control you can throw it on fastball counts and it will make it a lot harder for a hitter to hit if they are expecting fastball and get a pitch that moves 4 -8 inches
Effectiveness - 10 (very effective pitch)
Learning curve - 9.5 (easy to learn)
Safeness for your arm - 10 (will not hurt your arm)
Velocity - 9 (just 3-5 MPH less than fastball)
movement - 8 (not quite as much movement as a slider but thrown much harder)
accuracy - 9.5 (as easy to throw for a strike as a fastball is)
trajectory - ...3-9. or. 2-8 (from right to left with sometimes downward movement) for a righty
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if you have a strong arm you could throw curves, nuckles, and fastballs. thoughs are the only pitchs I know how to throw ( sorry, its kind'a hard to teach someone how to throw a ball on the internet)Help with some baseball terms?
since i answered your other one ill help you with this one. try throwing a change up or two seam fastball.The changeup is held with three fingers (instead of the usual two) and closer to the palm, to kill some of the speed generated by the wrist and fingers. This pitch generally breaks downward slightly, though its motion does not differ greatly from a two-seam fastball.
The pitcher grabs a baseball and finds the area on it where the seams are the closest together. Then, the baseball is rotated so that those seams are perpendicular to his body, with the index and middle fingers on each of those seams respectively.
For a two seam fastball each finger should be touching the seam from the pads or tips to almost the ball of each finger. The thumb should rest underneath the ball in the middle of those two fingers, finding the apex of the horseshoe part of the seam. The thumb needs to rest on that seam from the side to the middle of its pad.
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