First of all, pitchers must work hard in the off season. Pitchers must lift weights, run, and keep their body in shape (Pritchard 2). Most baseball coaches will give their pitchers off season workouts which they are supposed to do during the months which baseball is not going on. These workouts also differ from coach to coach but they are all built around getting stronger and staying in shape. Pitchers will do a different workout than the rest of the team. We focus on arm and leg strength more than just getting our entire body in shape. Most workouts include some type of shoulder exercise. The tricep and lat muscles also need a lot of strength. These muscles need to

With many different strategies and pitches, the pitcher has the most control over a baseball game. The pitcher is involved in every play that happens and even when nothing is happening, the pitcher has control over that as well. Most every fan in the stands has their eyes on the pitcher for most of the game, so that is even more of an adrenalin rush knowing that everyone is watching one player.

Pitchers main goal is to get batters out. They do this in throwing different types of pitches. The first pitch that any pitcher knows is the common fastball. Believe it or not, there are different ways to throw a fastball. There is a 'two seem fastball' a 'four seem fastball' and a 'split finger fastball'. Typical pitchers can also through a 'change up', and a 'curve ball' (Webball 1).

The actual pitching motion is a very technical thing to explain. When a pitcher can duplicate the pitching motion exactly every pitch, a lot of strain will be avoided in the arm. Also, this will benefit the pitcher because coaches or even the pitcher himself will know how to correct something if it is wrong. The motion needs to be a fluid motion that is the exact same pitch after pitch (Hall 16). To make this work, pitchers must critique their certain style of motion as much as possible. Pitchers will video-tape themselves pitching and look over it afterwards with a pitching coach to go over what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong. Pitchers will do different drills to get them to do certain parts of the pitching motion correctly.

A common misunderstanding about power pitching is that power is generated with the arm (Miller 3). This is not true. Many youth pitchers rush through their motion because they don't know how to keep their weight back (Mills 4). This is one of the biggest sources of power loss. Most of the pitchers power comes from the legs.

During a normal at-bat against a lead off batter, the pitcher will most likely throw a fastball. Either the two seem or the four seem would be effective. The two seem fastball happens when pitchers put their index and middle fingers (pitching fingers) on the narrowest seams and the thumb underneath the ball. At the release point, a pitcher wants to put more pressure on the index finger to get some sideways rotation. This causes the ball to tail right at the plate. This is a good thing because a ball that moves is harder to hit than a ball that has no movement. A four seem fastball differs from the two seem fastball in the placement of the pitchers fingers. The fingers for this pitch should be placed on the horseshoe seem on the side of the ball. The fingers should be perpendicular with the seams crossing them at four points. This pitch does not move as much as the two seam fastball but the four seem catches less air on the seams so the ball has more velocity. We do this first to try to get into a rhythm of throwing strikes.

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