Coming November
Command Training
Principles and Applied Training Methods
My read-through of my career, and what actually worked. I wrote it for the player, not the scientist. Try it and see if it's true.
Out in November. Leave your email below and you'll know the day it's out.
“Most pitchers only ever think tactically about competition. Almost nobody thinks tactically about their command training.”
That's the whole book. What you can do on the mound grows out of how you train, so your training deserves the same thinking you give a game. This is how I learned to do that.
What's inside
- Part 1
The foundation
The command paradox, and how your body actually processes a movement, from sweepers to the yips.
- Part 2
Optimizing the system
Speeding up development, and where to put your focus while you throw.
- Part 3
Building stable command
The skill pyramid, using it to diagnose what's going wrong, and what to do when you don't have the velo card.
- Part 4
Methods
Four constraints you can bias to build your own sessions, plus the drills I use: variable balls, 3-angle, late target, every pitch from every slot.
“Perfect command of a below average fastball loses to average command of a sweeper.”
From the chapter on pitching without the velo card.
Why me
No college offers going into my senior year. Cut from my first junior college. Eight seasons in the Mariners and Pirates organizations since. Command is how I got there.
Free chapter
Read a chapter first
Celebrate to Myelinate is free: the chapter on speeding up development. Leave your email and I'll send it, plus a note the day the book is out.