What’s the right arm slot for a pitcher, and what should be considered in adjusting arm slot? Plus, is it good to yell instructions? Well, no. It’s not. And, should young pitchers be allowed to throw knuckleballs?

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EP95 Transcript – Proper Arm Slot For Pitchers, Yelling Instructions to Players & Can Youth Players Throw a Knuckleball?

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Hey, welcome back to the dear baseball gods podcast. I’m Dan Blewett. And in today’s episode, we’re going to talk about arm angle and a couple of considerations to think about. Number two, we’ll talk about, uh, yelling to your kid on the field. Is this a good or bad thing to do? And number three, a question I got recently was, um, why do you dislike the knuckle ball as far as being like another pitch that a youth pitcher can throw.

Okay. So number one, arm angle, this is something that even pitcher, even parents who didn’t play, they can kind of pick up when something looks off with their kid’s arm angle. So I used to get parents, bring their kids in for lessons and they’d say, Hey, he kind of like slings the ball. He throws from kind of a weird sidearm angle compared to his teammates.

Can you take a look? And so here are the couple things that remember about arm angle. Number one, I do think everyone has an innate arm angle that is best for them just anatomically. So if you look at the major leagues, I think it represents a bell curve and you know, most things in life do. So if you look at the major leagues most guys, or so here that, let me back up here.

The arm angles, essentially there’s submarine, which is essentially just anything below sidearm. There’s sidearm. Then a little bit higher than that is low three quarters.