so for those of you who don't know I have a Youtube page and
Facebook page that I put out a lot of pitching information a lot of pitching grips videos and things like that that usually
Get a lot of views and I get a lot of questions about what are some baseball pitches that are safe for kids
I get this question all the time because I think a lot of youngsters are watching the videos and it's a great question because
You know we only got one arm. We only have one pitching arm, and we don't want to hurt it
So what I got for you today is three baseball pitches for kids that are going to be safe on your arm or at least
safer than most other pitches because there's an
Inherited risk, an assumed risk when you're pitching because our bodies are not really made to be throwing a baseball 90 100 miles-an-hour
100 times a game, so there is an assumed risk
Just like anything in life you have to understand what you're getting into so if you're a pitcher you have that assumed risk now one
Thing I do want to mention though is that your mechanics are huge when it comes to
These pitches because if your mechanics are off a little bit
Then you're going to be putting more stress in places that you don't need to you don't want to have that
Elbow hurting the shoulder hurting when you're doing your mechanics wrong
so the first
Fundamental of this before we get into the three pitches for the kids is going to be make sure your mechanics are on point make
Sure you the fundamentals are good before we get into this now the three pitches that we're going to talk about all of
these pitches are
Pronating pitches what I mean by protonating is pitches that when we throw our wrist turned this way after
We throw them or as we throw them okay? This is called deceleration. This is what happens in
Pitches when we try to slow our arm down, right we throat
We try to speed our arm up the whole time in our delivery and then after a release point
we have to slow it down somehow and
The pitches that we turn in and pronate on we decelerate really good on so it keeps our arms safe
Other pitches where we get around the ball we don't have as much deceleration
That's why they may be a little bit more risky than the other ones
So these three pitches that we're going to talk about right now all
Are pronating pitches pitches that we decelerate on when we throw the first one is going to be the two seen okay two-Seam fastball?
Everyone knows the four seam fastball or just fastball. This is the two seam fastball the way
We grip the two Seam fastball is
We put our pointer finger if you're a righty pointer finger on this lace right here middle finger right here
Thumb under knee the pointer finger on this side of the ball, okay when we throw this pitch all we're trying to do is
Get inside of it
Just a little bit and this is that pronation that I was talking about okay?
So if this is my release point I want to be tilted just a little bit
So think of it as wrist angle right if this is my release point on a four-seam fastball straight behind it on the two-seam
I just want to be tilted just a tiny bit a little bit of wrist angle at release point, okay?
And that begins my pronation that begins my deceleration as I finished that pitch and follow-through
Okay, great safe pitch for kids the second one is the sinker same exact grip
Okay
Same exact grip the only thing different is we're trying to get more depth on that pitch
Downward angle as opposed to on a two seam. Which is moving more arm side okay, so same exact grip
It's actually the same pitch the sinker is just a little bit easier for guys to throw who are
Like a three-quarter or a sidearm or lower lower arm angle guys so guys who are
Up a little bit higher are going to want to throw a two seam or it's going to be easier for you to throw two
seam guys who are a three-quarter a little bit lower you might want to throw a sinker because
To be honest a sinker in my opinion is better than the two seam because sinkers move more downward
to seams move more this way and if you think about a hitter swinging the bat when he's swinging
He's on one plane and if your pitch is moving on that planes
He can still make contact whether his timing is off or not
but if the ball is moving
Downward and he's on a plane that ball is going to miss his bat so in my opinion
The sinker is a little bit better than the two-seam for that reason the third pitch
We're going to talk about is the circle change up
Okay
Circle change up is another great one and the change-up is great to add to these pitches because in
Pitching we want to disrupt the batter's timing and balance
How do we disrupt the Batter's timing?
We throw fast balls, and we throw slow balls right if he's only geared up for fast balls
He's got a better chance of timing that ball up
But if we're mixing in fast and slow pitches, two seams and change ups and they look the same coming out now we can disrupt
His timing, how do we mess up his balance we throw in we throw out?
We throw up
We throw down we mess about batters timing and is balanced and we are successful pitchers if we do that, okay?
So the circle change up, we're going to grip it here now. Here's a tip if you throw a four-seam fastball
You want to throw a four-Seam circle change up since we talked about the two-seam fastball?
We're going to throw a two seam circle change up, so instead of the pointer finger here
We're going to put the middle finger right here
This is our going to be our circle with the pointer finger down to the thumb
I like to hook this finger on that lace
And then the pinky finger is down below that now all we're trying to do on this pitch again
We talked about pronation when we get to release point. We really want to prone this pronate this one out in front
I like to think about taking this pointer finger or the circle and throwing it to the ground as we we release it
So the ball kind of one wants to come off of these two fingers this way and have that spin
It should move arm side and downward just a little bit again
We need a fast pitch and a slow pitch two seam possibly sinker and that changeup
and it's a great combination combination of pitches to get batters out disrupt their timing disrupt their balance and
These are three of the safer pitches for young players, so if you're looking for pitches
Baseball pitches for youth players, this is a great place to start if you guys don't know I was a professional player myself
I threw a sinker a slider and a fork ball
My sinker was the number one sinker in the padres organization as well as my slider was number one in the padres organization
I also have an advanced sinker and slider
Training course that you might want to check out if you're interested in that sinker
Now again the slider is a pitch that we kind of get around so we don't have as much deceleration
We do decelerate on that pitch, but it's later so I wouldn't include this it as one of the safer pitches
but again
It's a great pitch and something to have in your back pocket as you get a little bit older and more
Developed as a pitcher, so if you guys are interested in checking that out
I'll leave a little link that's going to pop up right here. So definitely go check that out
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