question about pitches?

Question

i'm heading into my highschool freshman season [i'm 14] and i'm probably gonna be one of the top pitchers

now right now i throw a 4-seam and a circle change, but i think i need another pitch to add to my repertoire.

does anyone have any ideas on what pitches i can throw without damaging my arm and yet still be effective?

Answer 1

My personal favorite is the curve ball. A well thrown curve won't put stress on your arm, get a coach to help you out with it rather than try to learn it yourself.

Another pitch worth learning would be the split finger, though I never managed to master it myself.

Answer 2

Im going into my second year off college baseball and im a starting pitcher. I just got a new head coach this year and he is the former pitching coach for the stanford cardinals baseball team. He developed many young arms who are in the big leagues one is jeremy guthrie the starting pitcher for the batimore orioles. As a pitching coach he has taught me in order to be a succesful pitcher you need three pitches. My pitches are the two and 4 seem fastball, circle change, and curveball. As a young highschool player it is good to start working on a curveball, but you have to make sure whatever grip u choose or arm angle you throw it doesnt hurt your arm. Many pitchers hurt there arms by not understanding how to throw the curveball. A new pitch i learned this year was a splitter which is now one of my most effective pitches. I hope this helped you and i wish u luck during your highschool baseball season.

Answer 3

If you can throw those two pitches well you don't need another pitch. Too many young people think they need several pitches to get batters out and that is not the case. Being able to throw those two pitches for strikes is much more important than coming up with additional pitches that probably won't be effective even if you can get them over the plate. The fastball and one off speed pitch is all you need to get batters out at your age.

Answer 4

Hobie is right. Another pitch that you can work with is the slider, but I would do the two seamer instead. So like he said, work on your accuracy, make your change and your fastball match, and then develop your two seamer and you will be getting many people out. Good luck.

Answer 5

I'd go with overhand curve. I'm 13 and ive been throwing onr for a year and my arm is fine.

Answer 6

First thing I would do is improve the pitches you got. With the 4-seam I would practice developing velocity and location. Being able to locate your fastball up and down and especially in and out. To increase your velocity: improve your arm flexibility, Long toss, snap your wrist down at release (this will increase velocity and get you more movement). With the circle change, you should once again focus on location. You should also work on making it look like your fastball. If your looking for a third pitch, I would go with a 2-seam fastball. If you can get movement on it, it would be a great pitch. First it's easy to learn. Plus you could get a good tailing or sinking action on it. This would get you a lot of easy ground balls. When you get older you can start working on a curveball. By the time you're ready to learn the curve, you would have 3 good pitches.

Answer 7

Try a curveball.
I played High School Baseball last year, and I think you can get away with those two pitches, if you throw them for strikes.

Answer 8

dont bragg about yourself so much but throw four seam cut fastballs 2 seam sinker fastballs(for more sink hold in between seams) curve ball and any kind of change.

Answer 9

I don't know about a split finger fastball at 14 you need more arm strength for that but if i were you i would work on a 2 seam fastball and breaking ball. 2 seam fastball/sinker is one of the most unappreciated pitches in the game. and your going to need a breaking ball so work on the curve

Answer 10

Four good pitches for a high schooler to throw:

4 seam fastball, change up, splitter, and sinker. None of those pitches involves curling the wrist and screwing up the pitching elbow like a curve does, and they are fairly easy to control.