Name: How To Improve Pitching Accuracy [Command the Baseball with these Pitching Control Tips]
Uploaded: 2019-03-20T03:33:34.000Z
Duration: 8 min 59 s
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What's up guys?  Coach Madden of
YouGoProBaseball.com here with Brent

Gerund

Pourciau of Top Velocity and we're
gonna talk about pitching accuracy today

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talk about how guys who are struggling
with accuracy can possibly get better

with it your philosophy on it what they
could do to work on it so to me like

accuracy is theirs there's two ways we
define where the accuracy it's some

people call control/command
accuracy precision so basically control

or accuracy is III can get it into the
zone I'm just somewhere in the zone

precision command is I can get it in the
zone in the bottom right corner so

ideally we want to have command right so
here's the focus to do that we have to

be first consistent with our mechanics
if I'm consistent with my mechanics then

I can predict where my ball is going to
be at release right if I'm not

consistent with it then I can't predict
where my ball is gonna be released then

it's gonna be hard for me to predict
where I'm gonna locate the pitch or be

as precise of where I'm gonna hit the
pit the target every time so once we

have consistency which means you've done
it enough like you've put in enough reps

where it's become muscle memory and it's
like you don't have to think about it

just happens and you know where you're
gonna be every time you can be

consistent with bad mechanics you can be
consistent with good mechanics so

accuracy and precision is affected by
mechanics but it's not effective on

mechanics if you're just really good at
consistently doing these bad mechanics

you probably can locate pretty well
right but ideally if you understand your

mechanics and and you get consistent you
then can do two things you can not only

predict where you're gonna be every time
but if you're not there you know how to

make the change to get there and that's
the difference to me between someone

trying to be accurate with bad mechanics
to good mechanics is the bad mechanics

if that day for some reason they're not
consistent they're struggling you know

they got the yips they're struggling to
hone it in and fix the problem so that's

where the mechanics become very
important so it's outside the

consistency here's the mechanical
components that help us stay accurate or

precise and that is linear energy the
more linear energy I create specifically

in my trunk to where I want to go
it's more easy that I can make

corrections and adjustments because I'm
gonna be more unlikely locating more in

a more precise area right so but if I'm
really rotational and I'm spinning off

its I might think about just the angular
aspects of it I'm gonna be you know I

could release here you know I cannot
release over here I'm trying to find a

point where my arm crosses the zone as
opposed to when I go linear I'm already

in the zone moving towards the zone it
just comes down to a point of the timing

where I miss in that direction which
more likely it's gonna be in the area it

comes down to missing up up and down so
typically when guys are rotational

they're there mrs. are left to right
typically when guys are more linear

their misses are up and down but better
chance they they're more still more

accurate going forward so here's the
thing if I keep missing arm side arm

side arm side and I know I'm pulling I'm
rotational that means I'm dragging my

arms so my adjustment needs to be get
more linear power with separation and

carry more trunk forward now I'm not
armed side now I'm in the middle of the

plate as long as my energy is going that
way now it's a did I miss up then my

trunk finished up or did I miss in the
dirt maybe I transferred my trunk or now

I'm making those adjustments to the up
or down so if I keep missing up I'm

gonna try to get more power and carry my
trunk more into the target and then I'll

miss in the zone and so the point is
like if I'm two rotation I'm missing

left or right if I'm two if I get good
linear I'm missing up and down that's

where I rather miss I can make better
adjustments there and I'm in the zone

and at that point it comes down can I
correct like I went from missing glove

side glove side glove side now I made
that correction to get more linear now

I'm hitting the middle of the target but
now I want to shift over to the inside

part of the plate so now I'm going to
carry maybe I'm gonna stride a little

bit in that direction I'm gonna carry my
energy a little bit more towards that

side now I'm gonna get consistent there
and my confidence there and now that's

where I'm looking so that's how I would
do it if you're using a good

biomechanical understanding to be
becoming accurate or precise very nice

two things I want to add to that one I
did an old video

long time ago about I measured off being
offline with the land foot I was off

like three or four interests and then I
took a piece of string and went down to

the plate and that three or four inches
turned into over a foot right over here

so something very small here can make a
big difference over there in your

direction so a direction is huge second
thing I like to talk about when it comes

to pitching accuracy or command is
visualization just kind of having the

confidence conviction but also seeing it
before it happens you know I used to see

like a laser being almost you know I
kept my eyes open but I'd see that laser

beam hit the catcher's target mitt where
I wanted to throw that ball and that

just helped me execute on the pitch a
little bit better but I think it makes a

good point I think there is more than
one way to do this you know I give you

away another coach to give you away I've
had debates with coaches that it isn't

even biomechanical it's just a mindset
like you're saying and and and at the

end of the day I understand all that but
I what it comes down to there's many

different things that are affecting your
accuracy or precision and ultimately I

believe you got to get good at
understanding all them if you're really

gonna be good at it let's talk about
real quick the guys who say that it

doesn't matter how hard you throw it's
all about accuracy what do you have to

say about that I mean zack greinke did
that in a minor league a are in a spring

training game he went out and threw like
82 82 and located his pitches and got

hit all over the place and he wanted to
prove that velocity is important I think

that was a great very good lesson and I
took typically land on that side of yeah

I understand when guys want to do the
debate boy if you're throwing 100 and

you can't find the zone how are you
gonna be good I get that but and but if

you're 80 82 in in big league ball and
you're and you're painting and putting

the ball wherever you want how are you
gonna fool someone because at the end of

the day what is velocity velocity is the
amount of time they have to see what

you're doing it's the amount of time
they have to see what strategies are you

using against them and when you cut that
time off with velocity by giving them

like you know like they say like 100
minor festivals like 0.2 tenths of a

second you're I barely even has time to
adjust to see where it is at that point

so you're never gonna win
the velocity argument do we need it do

we don't because it's such a key piece
to creating deception and to fooling the

hitter because you're giving them less
time to react not only that but it's

something that is very measurable so
people use it unfortunately whether with

whether you like it or not we use it in
the baseball world to see oh this guy's

throwing 90 miles an hour okay he could
play at our school that's like a get in

the door you know marker that's it but
to me why does that because it levels

the playing field because if you're
looking at a kid a Scouts looking at a

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