No more Yahoo Answers (ok maybe a little more)

No seriously though. I am going to be cutting back the time I spend on yahoo answers helping others answer their baseball questions but not because I don’t like helping. I’m stopping because I’ve set up my own forum for everyone to use! It’s brand new and I’m still setting up the categories, but I would love for anyone who has a baseball question to drop in and check it out. There is an introduction section where you can introduce yourself to our new community, and then there are a bunch of other little categories I threw out there just to get it jump started. Feel free to start your own discussion or category and I promise I will do my best to answer any and all questions you may have regarding baseball. Thanks. Here’s the link to the new Baseball Discussion Forum

More Yahoo Best Answers

So I’ve been working hard at answering questions on yahoo and I’m up to 32% Best Answer out of 158 answers. Not too bad. The only thing is, I want to answer these questions on my website and blog. So what I did was start a forum. So besides trying to get that going, I’ve still been answering those questions on yahoo. Here is one of the best ones that I think really helped.

Lefty Grove asked:
“When your pitching in a game do you aim at anything?
Like do you just aim anywhere at the catcher or is there a certain spot on the catcher that you like to aim too?”

My answer to Lefty Grove:
“You definitely need to aim at the glove for the fastball (2 seam and 4 seam or any other variations of it). Fastball control is a necessity to become a good pitcher. I actually used to put a little sticker on my catcher’s glove so that I was not only throwing to his mitt, but to a spot in it. That helped me because I was more focused in on where I wanted to throw the baseball and if I missed it may be less of a miss than if I was just aiming at the glove.

You can visit this site for more information on pitching tips.

As for the off speed pitches, I was once told by a great pitching coach that you have to adjust your sights. I don’t like to say you are aiming at a different spot but your sights are set different. How I would do this is look where I wanted to throw the off speed pitches (curveball, slider, split, etc..) and then set my sights to where it would feel like I’m throwing that pitch. It may feel like you are throwing the baseball at the batter, but in reality you are just dropping it in there for a perfect strike. I hope this helps!

Focus on fastball control down in the zone before you work on in and out. Fastball command can take you far in the game of baseball.”