Pitching Coach Mike Maddux discovered Stephen Strasburg was tipping his pitches:
“I always have a tendency to tip pitches. I think it’s just the way I grip the ball,” Strasburg said. “My hands are pretty big, and if I’m not paying attention, I do little things. They’ve got everything on video, so they know all the little things that I do.”
To correct the problem, Maddux suggested Strasburg set his hands closer to his body. Instead of spinning the ball before coming set — or some similar, less deliberate motion — Strasburg tried to reach into his glove and set his grip right away Monday. The change seemed to work, as Strasburg allowed two runs in four innings and struck out five.
“From some of the swings they were taking on it,” Strasburg said. “It didn’t seem like they knew what was coming.”
Better to fix this in spring training than to let it get out of hand in the regular season.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2nnp9Wb
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