Why Do Elite Pitchers Outperform Everyone Else?

An example of beginning your stride THEN separating your hands.

There are two categories of Pitchers in the World.

There are ...

1. The Elite Big-League Pitcher who can expect their pitches to travel directly into their target.

2. Everyone else.

What do Elite Pitchers do that others don’t?

Watch any elite Big-League Pitcher and you see a Pitcher who begins their hand separation at the same time they begin their stride.

Why does this happen? When your hand separation occurs at the same time you stride, you allow your lower body to produce the Big-League fastball command needed to challenge Big-League Hitters to reach base.

What does Everyone Else do?

Watch any Pitcher who begins their stride then separates their hands and you’re watching a Pitcher who can’t establish their fastball.

Why does this happen? When you stride out of your front leg lift, you naturally use your throwing arm to offset your forward weight shift. When you see your hands separating after you begin your stride, you know you’re using your throwing arm for balance, you’re forcing your throwing arm to always catch up with your body and, consequently you can’t know with any certainty where any one pitch will end up.

Become an Elite Pitcher.

We teach Pitchers how to separate their hands at the same time they stride. As a result, they can expect to deliver their pitches directly into their target and, consequently, keep their Team close enough to win each game they pitch.

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“Fastball Command Sequencing Plans^©” Author/Coach
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It’s never too early to discover pitch location

How good a Pitcher are you?

Pitchers don’t need pitch location to produce good stats. This is because developing Hitters ...

• Allow the pitch count to swing to the Pitcher’s advantage.
• Swing at pitches they shouldn’t.
• Are learning to adjust their approach at the plate, pull inside pitches and know when to check their swings.

Big-League Hitters are done developing. The only way to get them out is to place your pitches in a spot where they can’t drive the ball.

It’s never too early to develop a Big-League pitch location.

No matter your age, your body works the same way as everyone else and, knowing this, it’s never too early to learn how to get your lower body to deliver your pitches into your target.

Again, no matter your age, you locate your pitches against the untrained Hitters you face, and your Big-League pitch location is sure to attract lots of attention from lots of influential baseball people.

Lower Body Engagement

There’s no magic formula for getting your lower body to drive your pitches, but, unless you think of your lower body engagement as something that happens, not something you do, you’re unlikely to produce the Big-League pitch location that’ll drive a very productive pitching career

Don’t know what impacts your lower body activity?

Getting your lower body to deliver your pitches into your target without changing your entire delivery is complicated but, when you understand how your body parts interact with one another, is very doable.

Unsure how this works? Don’t know someone who can do this? … then visit the Pro Pitching Institute.

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“Pitch Location Success Plans^©” Author/Coach
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Cell or Text: 856-524-3248
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Baseball Pitching Predicament becomes Your Dilemma

As a Pitcher, you mistakenly grow up thinking velocity, not pitch location, is your ticket to your Big-League pitching dreams.

By the time you realize Big-League Hitters are better equipped to drive your mistakes than you’re equipped to hit your spots, it might be too late to change the course of your pitching career.

How does Baseball deal with this disparity?

Professional Organizations invite Lower-Level Pitchers with the best “feel” for their pitch location to fill their Big-League openings.

When these Lower-Level Pitchers test their skill against Big-League Hitters, the Pitcher can only “hope” to keep their pitches out of the Big-League Hitters hitting zone.

Unfortunately, a “feel” for the strike zone is something that’s very personal and, consequently, isn’t teachable.

Therefore, the Lower-Level Pitchers who get a chance to pitch in the Bigs rarely live their Big-League dreams for long.

We build pitching futures.

Our “Pitch Location Success Plans^©”  …

• Shows you how to turn your “feel” for the strike zone into the expectation that your pitches will travel directly into your target
• No matter your age or skill level, teaches you how to discourage Hitters from driving your pitches.
• Gives you the opportunity to move up the Baseball Ladder smoothly and seamlessly.

Want the skills needed to live your pitching dreams? Visit the Pro Pitching Institute.

Skip Fast
Pro Pitching Institute
“A Pitcher’s Pitch Location Success Plan^©” Author/Coach
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Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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Don’t Let Hitters Steal Your MLB Pitching Dreams

The MLB Business Model wants you to succeed but doesn’t support your success.

Every Professional Pitcher and every Positional Player dream of having an MLB career.

- A Pitcher’s MLB pitching dreams ride on their ability to neutralize a constant flow of extremely talented Hitters. 

- A Hitter’s MLB dreams hinge on their ability to make the Pitcher constantly pay for their mistakes.

A high-end fastball can turn you into a Professional Pitcher, but to realize your MLB pitching dreams, you need to navigate your way around a constant stream of Hitters wanting to achieve their MLB dreams.

The only way to stop these skilled Hitters from stealing your MLB pitching dreams is for you to deliver your pitches directly into a target that’s been placed in a hard to hit spot.

Reality Check

Because MLB Organizations have lots of Pitchers in their Minor League system, they can fill their MLB openings with Pitchers who they think are ready to challenge MLB Hitters.

When a Pitcher gets their MLB call-up, but can’t locate their pitches, a stream of top-notch Hitters will reach base and the Organization will have no choice but to send the Pitcher back down.

We bridge the gap between professional pitchers and MLB inning eaters.

As just one example, after registering an 8.22 ERA over 7.2 innings during his first-ever MLB call up, a first-round MLB draft pick asked us to help him with his pitch location. We eliminated what was negatively impacting his location and, in his next call up, he started 22 MLB games while posting a 5.08 ERA over 117 innings.

Want to know what “Your Pitching Success Plan^©” looks like?  Let’s talk.

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Pro Pitching Institute
“A Pitcher’s Your MLB Pitching Success Plan^©” Author/Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
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Achieve Your MLB Dreams

Failure is not an option.

You can try and try and try and try, but nothing seems to work.

You can accept failure, or, to achieve your MLB dreams, you can find a way to turn your failures into success.

Sounds so simple, but what exactly is the formula for turning failure into success?

Let’s do some detective work.

Whatever is holding you back is something you can’t see but is always present.

Let’s save you some time … Gravity fits very nicely into this category. Gravity is all around us all the time. So much so that we tend to take it for granted.

Gravity leads you to something else you can’t see and may have yet to consider. Balance.

Your mind uses gravity to tell your body that it’s out of balance. The instant your body senses an imbalance, your mind manipulates your body position and, more importantly, while your body performs its balancing routine your movements take on a life of their own.

Therefore, to produce MLB ready results, you want your throwing action to become the balancing routine your body uses to get itself back into balance.

How do you do this?

You start with and stick with ONE pitching plan. Once you have a pitching plan, you discipline yourself to adjust to trends.

Every time you experience 3 or more unacceptable outcomes in a row, you know some movement within your pitching plan is forcing you to use your throwing arm as a part of your balancing routine.

As long as you stick with your ONE pitching plan, over 100’s of adjustments, you come up with a pitching plan that’ll use your throwing action as your one and only balancing routine. In the end, you can expect to deliver your pitches directly into your intended target, produce late stage ball movement and use your deceptive arm action to become an MLB inning eater.

Finding Solutions

Don’t have the time to go through this process? Need to produce MLB ready results right away? Let’s talk.

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“The 5-Phase Front Leg Lift Sequence^©” Author/Coach
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Becoming MLB Ready Should be a Given

How does a Pitcher become MLB ready?

1. Location - A Catcher places his target in a spot where the Hitter is least likely to drive the ball and the Pitcher hits the Catcher’s spot.
2. Ball Movement – Every pitch breaks so close to the plate that it becomes extremely difficult for the Hitter to make solid contact with any pitch the Pitcher throws.
3. Change of Speed - By showing fastball arm speed on every pitch, the Pitcher keeps their Opponent guessing about ball speed or movement.

How does a Pitcher get all 3 to happen all at once?

1. Location - Their lower body pulls their throwing hand through the same spot on every pitch.
2. Ball Movement - The additional energy their lower body channels up their core and out their throwing hand forces their ball to break closer to the plate than normal.
3. Change of Speed – The Pitcher’s lower body driving their throwing hand into release means, no matter the Pitcher’s grip or release, their fastball arm speed challenges the Hitter to make solid contact with any pitch they throw.

Why can’t baseball teach lower body engagement?

• Baseball treats lower body engagement as something a Pitcher does, yet, research proves, a Pitcher’s lower body engagement is actually a reaction to the Pitcher’s body position at the end of their front leg lift.
• Until Baseball learns how to teach lower body engagement through their Student’s front leg lift position, Pitchers will continue to waste their time trying to do something that’s physically impossible to do.

Pitchers accept a subpar standard of performance

Instead of pitching to a lower standard of performance directly related to Baseball’s inability to engage a Pitcher’s lower half, Pitchers should ...

• Maximize their throwing arm speed and expect the ball to end up where they want.
• Measure their pitching through their pitch location, not their stats.
• Create Pitcher’s counts instead of letting the Opponent control the count.
• Know their position on the Team is secure without concern for someone with better command taking their spot.

Finding Solutions

We have the only pitching protocol guaranteed to teach you the lower body engagement that’s required to become the Pitcher you always wanted to be.

Want to know more? Let’s talk.

Skip Fast
Pro Pitching Institute
“The 5-Phase Front Leg Lift Sequence^©” Author/Coach
E-Mail: skip@propitchinginstitute.com
Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

#ElitebyChoice

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Stop Moving Down the Mound!

Knowledge Base:        Inertia describes an object’s resistance to change in motion.

Momentum describes an object’s movement.

Momentum Hurts Location

When your delivery is driven by your movement down the mound, your shoulder rotation produces yours ball release.

Unless your stride tempo is exactly the same from one pitch to the next, your release point will continually change, and you can’t know with any certainty where any one pitch will end up.

Inertia Produces Location

When, out of your front leg lift, you open your front shoulder, you spin down the mound, your foot plant stops your rotation and your ball release becomes an instinctive reaction.

Once you know how to duplicate your change in direction from one pitch to the next, you can expect your pitches to travel directly into your target.

Finding Location Solutions

With momentum, your location depends upon your stride tempo. Anyone can ask any Pitcher to make their stride tempo the same on every pitch, but we have yet to find a way to reproduce the same tempo from one pitch to the next.

With inertia, your location comes from ending your front leg lift with your weight evenly distributed around your core. Ending your front leg lift with your weight centered around your core is an extremely teachable skill. Therefore, instead of hoping your ball goes where you want, location becomes an expectation.

Want to know how to end your front leg lift with your weight centered around your core?  Let’s talk.

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“Winning Pitch Location Strategies^©” Author/Coach
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Cell or Text: 856-524-3248

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