I'm a right handed pitcher and I throw a circle change. It breaks like a slider, but i thought it was supposed to break arm-side?
2007-03-18 14:38:53 · 7 answers · asked by CJ 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Yes you're correct, your circle change should be breaking a little bit to your armside. If it's breaking like your slider, you're putting too much pressure on your middle, ring, and pinky fingers causing the spin. The point of making the circle is to allow the ball to roll out of your hand with a little counter clockwise rotation (for a righthander) to get some good movement. If you let the ball roll out of your hand this way, it should still look like a fastball, but give you a little down and in movement with a little reduced speed. I'd suggest practicing playing catch using the grip before you bring it to the mound so you can get a really good feel of how it should be coming out of your hand and how it will feel different. A really good change up can take some time getting used to since your mechanics, arm slot, and arm speed are all the same, but the release of the ball is different. If you can get this pitch to work well, it can do you wonders and get you K's and ground balls all day long. Cheers to making hitters look silly
2007-03-19 05:29:38 · answer #1 · answered by blakester 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If anything, a right-hander's change should break in towards a right-handed batter and away from a left-handed batter. Sometimes there's no break at all and it should just drop.
The key is having the same arm "action" as a fastball, which will fool the hitters into thinking a fastball is coming.
2007-03-18 16:19:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The break all depends on the release. Your arm angle and release point determines the break. Myself being a former high school and college pitcher used to throw directly over the top and generally my circle change broke down and to the right. However if I threw three quarter it would break down and to the left.
2007-03-18 14:44:34 · answer #3 · answered by satan1525 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should break a tiny bit towards rightys and away from leftys. But if breaks the other way, all the better for you. They will get mixed up, because they will used to the norm.
2007-03-18 19:21:28 · answer #4 · answered by MJM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally, a circle change will just drop. To make it break in, you would have to change your grip and essentially make it an off-speed screwball.
2007-03-18 15:17:28 · answer #5 · answered by Bob T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep working on it - it shouldn't break at all. It should look exactly like a fastball.
2007-03-18 14:43:16 · answer #6 · answered by EnormusJ69 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
most of the time it doesn't break, but if it does, thats even better, good job
2007-03-18 14:42:29 · answer #7 · answered by Christmas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋