- Apr 14, 2022
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Understand what you are saying; but practice should have a focus point. If they are struggling with walks throwing an extra 100 pitches a week with 70 of them balls will not help.What's more important?
Efficiency or endurance?
Speed or accuracy?
The answer is yes.
Session benefits are not an either-or proposition. They develop the pitcher, no matter how you measure it.
Practicing for to be able to throw a lot of pitches, when the root cause is often walks and not being able to get outs seems like practicing to mitigate failure instead of practicing for success.
If a pitcher runs out of gas with 15 pitches an inning then yes work on endurance. If a pitcher is taking 25-30 pitches an inning then work on that.
Just my opinion the best way for a pitcher to pitch deeper in games is to face fewer batters.