After talking it over with her PC he agreed and encouraged her to throw a scrop instead
This is interesting timing, DD's coach wants her to have a screwball, and to me it just looked like an inside bullet spin pitch. After talking it over with her PC he agreed and encouraged her to throw a scrop instead, stepping to the left with an in and out arm motion then lean to the right and peel and come off the index and second fingers to get inward action (RHP).
She tried it and had pretty good results. It had different movement. PC also had her throw the rise with this motion as well and said it may be easier to get the proper rotation vs the normal way.
He also said do not throw the scrop to RHB until you know where it's going to go!
Interesting stuff
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I am possibly describing this incorrectly, the idea is to get better movement than a screwball. The reason being is almost all screwballs thrown are inside bullet spin fastballs.
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I am possibly describing this incorrectly, the idea is to get better movement than a screwball. The reason being is almost all screwballs thrown are inside bullet spin fastballs.
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I agree with what you are saying, and the PC said that this pitch breaks all the rules. I'm not saying she will start throwing it, I'm not saying it's a good idea. I was just relaying what happened at a lesson last night and it was 'different'.Screwballs thrown inside are never bullet spin fastballs because they are not screwballs. Pitches are defined based on the outcome, not the intent of the pitcher. Intent is why so many kids have 5 - 7 pitches. If your DD has a good IR fastball, what do you expect to accomplish by completely changing her mechanics to throw this one pitch?
Are you prepared for what will happen when those screwball mechanics start to appear in her other pitches? That is what happened back in the day to DD#4. Yes the pitch was effective but it was the worst thing for her as a complete pitcher. We spent about a year losing the screw mechanics and perfecting her fastball. The same fastball that she threw in the SEC that most involved referred to as a screwball.