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<blockquote data-quote="DecaturJacket" data-source="post: 1174317" data-attributes="member: 7369">For sure. Coaching pitchers can be very different from kid to kid. Usually to get to Tech, they&#039;re doing a lot of things right already. However, there&#039;s ALWAYS a lot they can do better. You definitely look at a kid&#039;s mechanics and look for areas you can improve, but that&#039;s going to be very different kid to kid and you&#039;re not trying to get every kid to look alike. They all have their slight variations in mechanics and slot and that&#039;s usually a good thing. That being said, there are often bad mechanics that may need to be slightly corrected. A lot of &quot;learning to pitch&quot; in college is getting used to not being able to just get by with throwing hard or having one solid pitch that you can just go to get guys out. It&#039;s learning to deal with a MUCH smaller strike zone and guys that won&#039;t chase the stuff that you&#039;re used to getting chased. Most kids don&#039;t have to rely on hitting their spots as much in high school either. You can get by hanging pitches over the plate a lot more because there&#039;s less guys that can do damage with them. In college all of that changes. A lot of pitching is just learning consistency too. Consistency in your mechanics. Consistency with your control. Consistency with your approach (general approach, obviously hitter by hitter it can vary some).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DecaturJacket, post: 1174317, member: 7369"] For sure. Coaching pitchers can be very different from kid to kid. Usually to get to Tech, they're doing a lot of things right already. However, there's ALWAYS a lot they can do better. You definitely look at a kid's mechanics and look for areas you can improve, but that's going to be very different kid to kid and you're not trying to get every kid to look alike. They all have their slight variations in mechanics and slot and that's usually a good thing. That being said, there are often bad mechanics that may need to be slightly corrected. A lot of "learning to pitch" in college is getting used to not being able to just get by with throwing hard or having one solid pitch that you can just go to get guys out. It's learning to deal with a MUCH smaller strike zone and guys that won't chase the stuff that you're used to getting chased. Most kids don't have to rely on hitting their spots as much in high school either. You can get by hanging pitches over the plate a lot more because there's less guys that can do damage with them. In college all of that changes. A lot of pitching is just learning consistency too. Consistency in your mechanics. Consistency with your control. Consistency with your approach (general approach, obviously hitter by hitter it can vary some). [/QUOTE]

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