baseball mechanics...?
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Go to your local bookstore and find a book on baseball training. Most websites charge for that info.
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On Base Percentage + Slugging percentage...
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warming up the infielders arms!!!
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what the hell does that have to do with baseball.
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here is an oldie but a goodie, get an old tire hang from a tree. paint a small circle on it. hit the circle till you remove the paint.  repaint the circle and do it again. work on blocking the ball, have someone thow balls in the dirt to your left and right just outside the plate. not too far away from you keep your head down watch the ball hit your body or glove.  when you work on throwing down to second do not take three steps to the base. stand up and throw. one step. start slowly catch the ball. stand and throw. then keep going faster.  watch the pros on how they frame the ball. frame it where you catch it.  DO NOT MOVE YOUR GLOVE DURING THE FRAMING!!!!  I am also an umpire and we hate that
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well a ball is replaced when it gets scuffed either when pitched or hit. usually. during an inning if the same ball is used throughout it is possible that it may have a scuff or two from a grounder, but I believe superstition plays a part. Baseball players are some of the most superstitious people in the world ( I should know I play too) so if they're getting the outs with the one ball, then keep using it until you're forced to replace it.
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why is this question under baseball?
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Is this a baseball question?
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baseball............ the pitcher adjusts his cap, runs his finger over his brow, adjusts his crotch, looks in for the sign, shakes off the first sign, throws over to first to keep the runner close. the batter adjusts his batting glove , pulls on his pants, knocks the dirt off his cleats, digs in, practice swings to get his timing and finally the pitcher throws the ball and its outside for ball one, repeat process. Slow?, my pet snail can slime a hundred feet out before the pitcher FINALLY throws a pitch
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Get their key players back from injury. Put Kerry Wood in the bullpen. Trading for Soriano may help. I can't see that there's any pitching help on the horizon. I think the Cubs may give up on the season soon and start trading away players instead of trying to pick up help.
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Injuries, age and pitching. Also don't underestimate the loss of Leo Mazzone. He was a constant during the Braves run, and coincidentally, the Braves had annually the best pitching staff in baseball for many of those years. But don't count them out...I just have this feeling about the Mets collapsing.
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If you mean pulling your head off the ball... head moves with shoulder this is a huge problem 'cause it makes seeing the ball virtually impossible. How to correct:\n\nGet a tee and put the ball on it. Look out ot the pitcher mound or where it would be... Now follow the imaginary pitch all the way to the tee. Hit the ball but focus on not moving your head but looking at the tee where the ball was. It will take a lot of practice to break this but with time and a lot of swings... you will correct it.\n\nIf you uderstand how to properly hit a ball to the opposite field. (Wait for the ball to get deeper) During the next several practices have someone pitch you BP and hit everything you get pitched to the opposite field. The trick here is to not wait for the outside pitch but try to force everything to the opposite field. High, Low, Inside, Outside... Wait on it and take it to the opposite field! Make a game of it... I like this better than tee work (but do both) because you are actively involved in hitting a pitched ball. Hitting to the opposite field requires your eyes to stay on the ball longer and deeper. \n\nIn a game situation when you are worried about it... we all get that way! Consider taking the first pitch and follow it all the way to the catchers mitt. This will reinforce the muscle memory right before you launch one!!!\n\nIt will take a lot of practice to break this but with time and a lot of swings... you will correct it. Remember it took a while to form the bad habit... \n\nGOOD LUCK!
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I think you are going to find it very hard to find a machine that will throw a curve.\nMost of the machines just throw the ball at certain velocities, the mechanism for it to throw a curve would be pretty complicated.
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One theory holds that "S" was already being used for or could be confused with a single, stolen base, sacrifice fly or sacrifice hit (bunt), second base, or even SS for shortstop. \n\nBut that prob'ly aint it at all. And some people do use SO for strike out The most common scoring system used today, and the one you'll find in your program, with it's diamond diagram and the positions numbered 1 for pitcher, 2 for catcher, 3 for 1st base, etc. was, according to the folks at Cooperstown, invented by one Henry Chadwick in 1874. \n\nApparently Mr Chadwick was just impressed with the harsh sound of the K in the word strike. Though I hardly ever hear that k sound from an umpire, most of them just sound like they are saying "Ssstryyyyyy!" or even just "Ryyyyyyyye!" \n\nSome people just put one K in the diamond for a strike out , some use Kc or a backwards K for a called third strike. Others put each strike in the diamond with an F for a foul strike. Some even keep a record of each pitch and where it crossed or didn't cross the plate, usually that is kept in a separate area for the pitchers stats and then compared later to the batters stats if ya wanta get that involved. They use a FK for foul strike and F for fouls after the 2nd strike. \n\nThat is way too fouled up for me. In fact I am one of those who gets fouled up by the 3 for 1st base, when I do try to score a game I use letters and numbers for the positions, 1 is firstbaseman, Cf center field, Ph pinchhitter. \n\nBut anyway that trying to keep a record of each pitch, or at least each strike, in the tiny diamond, some claim is the main evidence for another theory, the first strike was a vertical line "I", the second was the top angle line, the third the bottom angle.\n\nMaybe Old Chadwick just liked the K sound in his own name and used it, who Knows? K passa? 'K? \n\nThere kould be other theories but there is little evidence to support the theory that there are sekret Klan Konklaves goin on out there under the skoreboard.
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If you mean pulling your head off the ball... head moves with shoulder this is a huge problem 'cause it makesseeing the ball virtually impossible.  How to correct:\n\nGet a tee and put the ball on it.  Look out ot the pitcher mound or where it would be...  Now follow the imaginary pitch all the way to the tee.  Hit the ball but focus on not moving your head but looking at the tee where the ball was.  It will take a lot of practice to break this but with time and a lot of swings... you will correct it.\n\nIf you uderstand how to properly hit a ball to the opposite field. (Wait for the ball to get deeper) During the next several practices have someone pitch you BP and hit everything you get pitched to the opposite field.  The trick here is to not wait for the outside pitch but try to force everything to the opposite field.  High, Low, Inside, Outside... Wait on it and take it to the opposite field!  Make a game of it... I like this better than tee work (but do both) because you are actively involved in hitting a pitched ball.  Hitting to the opposite field requires your eyes to stay on the ball longer and deeper.  \n\nIn a game situation when you are worried about it... we all get that way!  Consider taking the first pitch and follow it all the way to the catchers mitt.  This will reinforce the muscle memory right before you launch one!!!\n\nIt will take a lot of practice to break this but with time and a lot of swings... you will correct it.  Remember it took a while to form the bad habit...  \n\nGOOD LUCK!
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i assume you're talking about baseball; but all it is is that there is a spinning wheel incased in a large metal structure. there is a whole where a baseball is placed. depending on how fast you want the pitch to go you can adjust the speed the wheel turns. once the ball goes down the chute and lands on the wheel, the wheel accelerates the ball forward, simulating a pitch
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I can't believe it either!  Wood's mechanics are terrible and always have been.  The guy never learned how to pitch correctly.  Prior has the same problem.  They will never pitch an entire season without breaking down.  The Cubs will never do anything until they address this issue.  The other problem is hiring Sweet Lou!  This guy is a bomb ready to go off.  With a sub par team and a short fuse all the Cubs fans will get is Lou's side show and another 90 plus loss season.  It's too bad because the Cubs fans deserve much more.  And why isn't Ron Santo in the hall of fame????