How to Throw a Floater

Video Transcript

"Hey I'm Mike and today I'm going to show you how to throw a floater. When throwing a floater you are going to grip the ball in a foreseen fast ball grip. The importance of this pitch is not within the grip but within the speed that you throw it. The floater is a very very slow pitch that is meant to deceive the hitter and throw them off balance. When you throw this you should throw it at a very very slow speed as slow as you can throw it to get it to the target that you are throwing to. This is a very hard pitch to light off of and it is a very hard pitch to keep timing with. It is like a lob pitch with less speed. I'll now show you how to throw the floater. That's how you throw a floater."