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If you are the mother or father of a young girl or boy beginning his baseball career and you need to learn the basics of the game, then watch this video and you’ll be able to coach the next Albert Pujols or Jason Verlander.
College baseball hitting trends showed a dramatic drop in home runs and batting average in 2011 after the implementation of the BBCOR standard for bats. The chart below shows the drop in batting average in the 2011 season. Note that the NCAA began allowing aluminum bats prior to the 1974 season. Weight limits curtailed batting average growth in the 1986 season.
CHANGEUP: Jamie Moyer's best pitch
After a young pitcher learns the 4-seam and 2-seam fastballs, the next pitch that he should learn is the change-up. Unfortunately, many young pitchers at the Little League level learn the curve ball next. That’s because even a little curve ball at the Little League level makes for an over-powering pitcher.
Many doctors who are much smarter than me believe that a young pitcher should not be throwing a curve ball at an early age. I’m not qualified to comment on that, but one thing is for sure: in the long run, the curve ball will come to most pitchers, but the simply changeup may take longer to master.
How you choose to throw a changeup is completely up to how it feels for the individual pitcher. There are so many hand positions that work in throwing a changeup that the coach should teach them all and let the pitcher decide on what works best for them. Just be sure that the pitch:
At an early age, we learned that pitchers need to finish 5 innings to qualify for a win. We’ve watched games where the starting pitcher is struggling to hold a big lead through 4 2/3 and the manager keeps him out there just a little longer to get that last out and qualify for the win.
Starting pitcher CC Sabathia earned a win in 2001 in 4 IP.
The part of the rule that we all know is found in:
Rule 10.19 (a) Credit the starting pitcher witha game won only if he has pitched at least five complete innings and his team not only is in the lead whenhe is replace but remains in the lead the remainder of the game.
But the part of the rule that we all don’t know is the following:
Rule 10.19 (b) The “must pitch five complete innings” rule in respect to the starting pitcher shall be in effect fro all games of six or more innings. In a five inning game, credit the starting pitcher with a game won only if he has pitched at least foud complete innings and his team not only is in the lead when he is replaced but remains in the lead the remainder of the game.
In 1999, on the final day of the season Larry Luebbers was credited with a win while pitching only 4 innings in a 9-5 win for the Cardinals over the Cubs. Rick Ankiel pitched the fifth inning for the Redbirds and picked up the save.
On June 1, 2001, Cleveland Indians’ rookie pitcher C.C. Sabathia pitched 4 innings and won a game ironically versus the Yankees in a game that was called after 5 1/2 due to rain. See the proof with CC Sabathia’s 2001 game log here.
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