Types of Baseball Pitches

Video Transcript

"I'm here to teach you pitching. The next thing we're going to talk about today is now we're going to walk you through the breaking ball. Why we call it a breaking ball instead of a curve ball, slider, slurve, in all reality the breaking ball is conducive to how you throw or your arm slot. If you're a over the top pitcher straight over the top, you're not really a slider pitcher. You can get a cut fastball or whatever, but really in all essence you're a curve ball pitcher. If you're more out here, high 3 quarter, you're going to be into a slurve ball guy. If you’re a low 3 quarter, you're going to be a slider guy. When I teach the kids and we go through stuff, we're really talking about a breaking ball and not really trying to take an over hand guy and try to teach him a slider. That's really going to change his arm slot. As you move up higher, arm slots, good hitters. As we go up, the good college guys, A, AA, AAA, start to recognize different things in pitchers. If there's a tendency to change from a fastball. A guy may throw up here to know all of a sudden, the breaking ball that changes 6 inches in his arm angle. Good hitters are going to pick that up."