2023 Off-season and Portal Recruiting

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

[1972Shocker]

I would like to see a little more bite on the slider.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

I would like to see a little more bite on the slider.

Agreed.

[wufan006]

Question for you baseball gurus: If I am an elite pitcher -- I mean super, duper good ... as in one of the top 10 pitchers in D1 -- do I really care if the batter is right-handed vs left-handed?

depends on what your secondary pitches are

[1972Shocker]

Just my thoughts, 72’. Kung floats a question out there and goes AWOL while we are crafting well reasoned responses.

We will get our payback when Wichita State adds Soccer.

[Kung Wu]

Just my thoughts, 72’. Kung floats a question out there and goes AWOL while we are crafting well reasoned responses.

I'm still waiting for someone knowledgeable to answer.






I kid! I kid! All great responses!

[Kung Wu]

depends on what your secondary pitches are

Not being a smart-ass here, this is a legit follow-up question: If you are a top-10 in the country D1 pitcher, can't we all assume you have very good command over an array of pitches to draw on? Or is it possible to be considered one of the very best pitchers in D1 and you only have one pitch -- say a knuckleball -- that you're just extremely good at?

[WstateU]

Back in my day, I used to give Ruth "chin music"... he was known to crowd the plate with 'South Paws'.



Then I'd dust him with one of these doozies...

[wufan006]

Not being a smart-ass here, this is a legit follow-up question: If you are a top-10 in the country D1 pitcher, can't we all assume you have very good command over an array of pitches to draw on? Or is it possible to be considered one of the very best pitchers in D1 and you only have one pitch -- say a knuckleball -- that you're just extremely good at?

I am not aware of any college pitcher current or in the past that is or has been dominant with 1 pitch...Could it happen - sure it could. I'm sure that I am missing someone though.

My point about velo earlier was that there are way more important metrics that make a pitcher difficult to hit other than velo, most all have been brought up since my earlier post. Look at how many hard hit balls Snead gave up this last year on fastball, guessing that he averaged 96-97 per fastball which is certainly elite.

[Kung Wu]

I am not aware of any college pitcher current or in the past that is or has been dominant with 1 pitch...Could it happen - sure it could. I'm sure that I am missing someone though.

My point about velo earlier was that there are way more important metrics that make a pitcher difficult to hit other than velo, most all have been brought up since my earlier post. Look at how many hard hit balls Snead gave up this last year on fastball, guessing that he averaged 96-97 per fastball which is certainly elite.

Yeah, I can't imagine a top-10 D1 pitcher not having a portfolio to draw on.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

I am not aware of any college pitcher current or in the past that is or has been dominant with 1 pitch...Could it happen - sure it could. I'm sure that I am missing someone though.

My point about velo earlier was that there are way more important metrics that make a pitcher difficult to hit other than velo, most all have been brought up since my earlier post. Look at how many hard hit balls Snead gave up this last year on fastball, guessing that he averaged 96-97 per fastball which is certainly elite.

I will take it a step further. My son is playing 11U travel ball and even in the upper levels of rec little league, the successful pitchers already have a secondary pitch. You don't have to have top tier velocity, but you absolutely need a good secondary pitch to compliment the FB.

[Shockm]

Lots of Pitching guru’s poking their head out now. I’ve heard Maddox and Rivera mentioned several times. The thing about Maddox is that he had pin point location control. Very few pitchers have pin point control

[ShockTalk]

Lots of Pitching guru’s poking their head out now. I’ve heard Maddox and Rivera mentioned several times. The thing about Maddox is that he had pin point location control. Very few pitchers have pin point control

Hardly a "guru" status discussion.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

And now we have goobers in the discussion to go along with our gurus.

[1972Shocker]

Former Creighton and MLB pitcher Pat Venditte, who the Shocks faced numerous times had a very unique way to take advantage of the the righty-lefty and lefty-righty matchups.