What's up baseball players today we're going to talk about, does
fielding position matter in baseball?
So lots of coaches preach proper fielding position, you know, and as a
pitcher, you've got to obviously, you know, field your position pretty well.
But what does feeling reposition mean is getting into a good fielding position as
a pitcher, important, all those questions we're going to cover in today's video.
So stick around.
Okay.
So to get into whether fielding position as a pitcher actually matters.
Let's talk about what your role is as a pitcher, as far as getting your position.
Cause building your position is important, but it's not really
ranging, left and ranging.
Right.
And being in this Supreme position to be this cat, to grab everything.
As a pitcher, your job is to feel Bunce.
So to both sides, get anything that's hit in front in front of you
like a slow roller of a swing bone, essentially cover first base on
balls, the right side, turn the double plays you're supposed to turn back.
A base is all that stuff.
That's part of being a good, effective fielder as a pitcher.
The big thing you don't want to do, and this is why fielding position is a lot of
times, overstressed is you don't want to be in this position so that you can start.
Reaching over into shortstop or second base and taking double
play balls away from them.
That's the big, no-no basically as a pitcher once you've let everything go.
If it's more than arms width to either side, the second basement of shortstop's
probably going to be able to get that.
If it's obviously like absolutely tattooed, maybe not.
But in double play position, the shortstop and second basement
are pinching up the middle.
So they're going to be relatively close to balls up the middle.
The only ones that they're not going to be able to get to are ones that
are pretty much straight up the gate.
Like a little bit to your left, a little bit to your right, but if
it's something you would actually be at a range for, they're going to
probably going to be at to get to it.
Not to mention that double play balls are typically, mediums are hard to hit
ground balls, so you don't want it.
What you don't want to do is take one of those away.
From yourself, essentially, by reaching over there, you're going to take away
a Dole play that he is paid to turn shortstops are paid to turned old plays.
Second basement are also paid as their noble place.
So with fielding position, this was what we used to teach wa which was all right.
We got to like snap back and be ready.
That's just unrealistic.
Ultimately, as a pitcher, your job is to get hitters out and that means
your delivery should be honed to throw as hard as you possibly can.
To spend the best breaking stuff that you can, and to be as easily
located as you can, you know, have the best command possible.
So you should never build your mechanics, trying to do all those things.
And then also factor in, okay, well, I have to stop early and I
feel like reset myself early, so I can be in a good feeling position.
In reality, you're fielding position is your follow through.
So if you finish up over here, fine, feel the balls wherever you are, but we're
not going to start to adjust our delivery so that we're squared of the plate.
We're not going to change the way we naturally produce power so
that we're square to the plate.
Those things don't really make a lot of sense because then we start
to give away a mile per hour to, we start to give away command.
We start to give away spin of our breaking balls so that we can be in
fielding position to what field one ground ball per game, maybe two.
I mean, we're stressing fielding position when we're throwing
a hundred pitches, a game and getting maybe one comebacker right.
So why would we be altering our delivery to.
Have such a tiny impact on the game, right?
And when we do get come backers, or we do get balls to field, it's typically a
bar, a swinging bunts, and we're going to charge and make a play on, or we're going
to cover first base on the ground while the right side, the amount of comeback.
Cause you're getting a season is still, it's always relatively
slim, especially compared to how many pitches total you throw.
It's maybe 1% of total pitches are going to become a comebacker.
And again, we don't want to have ourselves in this mindset of.
I'm going to start reaching and ranging out and grabbing balls that are shortstop
or second baseman are paid to get.
Okay.
So hopefully this video helps obviously fielding position for pitchers is an
important concept, but I think there's a lot of misnomers because parents,
especially for young players, they see a ball that little Johnny maybe
could have fielded and it goes through the middle for a hit and they start
thinking about all we've got, gotta fix is feeling position as a pitcher,
if there's just a tough reaction time.
Okay.
And so when these hearted balls go through.
They go through.
It's not the end of the world.
You want to field what you can guys with better reflexes with better coordination.
They tend to be just belt or better fielders, but really the biggest
things that matter are fielding your position at the, at the lines.
So getting all your bunts, knowing where to go, getting to first base on balls
on the right side, not interfering with.
Taylor made double play balls by overreaching or trying to be, you
know, Johnny shortstop on the mound.
And then just understanding what you need to do.
Number one, to be a successful pitcher, which is hone your mechanics
to throw hard, to spin good breaking stuff, and to command the baseball.
Okay.
I'm coach Dan Blewett, I hope that you found this video helpful.
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