Important Facts About Youth Baseball Pitching

Important Facts About
Youth Baseball Pitching

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10 Facts about Youth Baseball Pitching

1. Increasing
   strength, working out with weights during the season has not been proven
   to increase pitching velocity (actually it could increase the chance of
   injury). Go easy on the weight training. Do you see very many bulked up
   MLB pitchers?


2. This
   includes using weighted balls. Save your money


3. Pitchers
   should practice from the mound, practicing from flat ground simply
   disrupts the natural pitching mechanics.


4. Pitching
   is not throwing. How many times have you been on a little league field and
   heard someone say “just play catch”?
   Pitching sues faster motion of the body and a much smaller target than
   just playing catch.


5. style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>My pet peeve style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  I
   do not believe in saving the pitcher. Sure he needs rest, but a pitcher
   should be practicing at full intensity and working on game like locations
   and pitch counts. With all the talk lately about pitch counts
   ..if a youth baseball, high school, or pro for that matter,
   practices a couple of times a week at 50-60 pitches , of course he will
   injure himself or fatigue past that in a game situation. We still, as
   youth baseball coaches, watch are pitchers and do what we can to prevent
   injury, but pitchers need to practice like they may need to perform in a
   game. This is not an overnight practice routine, but something to build
   upon year after year.


6. style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>My biggest pet peeve! style='mso-spacerun:yes'> It makes no sense whatsoever for a
   pitcher to step to the side before pitching to the plate. You have to
   stride forward and pitch the ball in very small area(the strike
   zone).Why  a pitcher rocks
   sideways before going forward has no place being coached. If you are going
   to throw a rock at a sign, do you rock sideways or rear back and fire!?


7. Pitch
   from the stretch. There is so many things that
   can go wrong in pitching, especially in youth baseball pitching. So we
   should be coaching our youth pitchers to pitch from the stretch. Less room
   for error, it keeps the footwork simple. When a pitcher is having trouble
   the first place to look is at the feet., then
   work your way up. If the footwork is bad, many bad pitches will follow. So
   let’s keep it simple.  In
   addition, I can find no verifiable research proving that a windup
   increases velocity or endurance with pitchers. Including my own son.


8. Less
   mechanical robotic movement. Gives time for more errors and gives the
   batter advantage. Keep the body moving faster and
   you will throw faster and have less mechanical errors.


9. Ice is
   used for injury. Why do many pitchers ice their arms after pitching? After
   an intense pitching session you should want the blood to keep flowing and
   have a normal cool down. Not shocked in to reduced blood flow to the
   heavily used part of the body.


10. Most
    pitches tire out, lose the strike zone, have arm
    injury, because they do not practice enough.

I hope these 10 facts help give you some direction in coaching youth baseball
pitchers and what if any drills to use and how they should practice

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