Whats the best pitching repertoire for a high-spin fastball pitcher? Should he add a sinker, slider or curveball? What’s best? Dan also discusses the 80% rule of pitch development, and whether or not it’s okay to show emotion on the baseball field, such as watching or pimping a home run.

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Transcript EP94 – Best Pitching Repertoire: Dos and Donts; 80%Rule; Is it Okay to Show Emotion on the Field?

welcome back. This is dear baseball gods episode 94. I’m Dan Blewett. And today we are going to cover whats the best pitching repertoire. So we won’t get into every little thing, but we’re going to get into a couple of different options. I put out a Twitter poll and I thought it was kind of interesting in our 90-second mindset.

We’ll talk about it. 80% rule, which is a rule I made up up for pitch development and then our Q and a portion we’ll talk about, well, is it. The right thing to do to show emotion, or is it okay to show emotion on the field? And that includes stare downs flips, all that sort of stuff. All right. So for pitching repertoire.

So what I asked Twitter, and I did cover this more thoroughly in a YouTube video, cause I’m not going to get into all this stuff. I asked, say you had a high three quarter hard throwing high spin rate, four seamer type of pitcher. So a guy that can really spin a four seam fastball, um, If you had that guy and he needed two other pitches and you could just grab him out of a vending machine.

Would you rather give him a, a in the combination we’re either cutter or sinker plus curve, ball, or slider, all possible combinations of those two pitches. Um, and this is an interesting thing to discuss because when looking for a repertoire, it takes a good amount of time. This is something I didn’t figure out until I was in my mid to late twenties, what you do well and what you don’t do well and how you should shape your repertoire to suit.

And can you shape your repertoire to suit? Like, can you even learn a new pitch? Well, um, everyone should be able to,