Robert Stock

And ultimately, I settled on...

I just can't do it.

Just scrap the change-up overall.

Yeah, I can throw all the variations.

I can get it to move well, but it's just really difficult for me to throw them in the strike zone, right?

So you can go into a lab and you can create the world's nastiest pitch, but unless you can reliably throw it over and over again in the zone, it's useless to you.

Right.

And there's certain, you know, when you plan on using the pitch, like early in the count, late in the count, behind in the count, ahead in the count, that all factors into it.

And for me, this changeup was always going to be a like behind in the count, get to even in the count pitch.

And for that, like when the batter is ahead in the count, they're so unlikely to chase pitches.

They know that they're in the driver's seat.

And so you have to be able to throw this pitch in the zone and have it be balanced.

you know, successful.

And, uh, whereas when you get to two strikes, the batters are there on the backseat, they're defensive, they might chase more often.

Uh, and so how you, how you throw a pitch in the zone changes according to the count and how you want to use the pitch and everything.

So the changeup was just not working for me, even though on paper, it should be great.

What side of the rubber I throw pitches from.

So, you know, basically I go as extreme as if I'm throwing on the first base side of the rubber, my toe is just touching the rubber.

You know, my heel is completely off the rubber towards the first base bag.

And so throwing pitches from that side, and then I'll swap over to third base side where my heel is just barely nicking the rubber, my toe being off towards the third base side.