Did you know the smallest of changes in your delivery can make a huge difference in your performance?
What if you added just another 2 inches of movement to two of your pitches. What difference would that make? How would that benefit you?
The answer to these questions is simple: Your performance would drastically improve; your ERA would improve, you'd add a few more k's, throw faster with more accuracy and the list goes on. Just by adding some simple improvements.
Small improvements over time = Huge Results
what I'm getting at is this:
Many little league, high school and collegiate pitchers have aspirations of pitching in the MLB. Of course its the dream of many. Is it possible? of course it is! But what does it require? Granted it requires a lot of hard work and dedication, knowledge, mental toughness and all of that.
But what it truly requires to get the skills you need is consistency. Your daily choices, behaviors and habits are going to dictate whether you have a shot at that level or not.
Think about this scenario: If you put in three hours of focused energy into practicing your baseball skills everyday and didn't miss a day for 5 years what type of player will you have become? Add up the hours: It's 5475 Hours. What type of skill set would you acquire over that time frame? You would be incredible! Do that for ten years and you will have put in 10,950 hours; 15 years= 16,425 hours.
With that discipline you will have acquired a lot of skill set and certainly have the opportunity to play on some elite baseball teams giving you more opportunity for exposure.
What happens to most players is the opposite: they put in time but they are inconsistent with their efforts. Next Monday seems to be the best time to start over, rededicate and get back to their routine. With the rededicated schedule they will never be as good as they could have.
Don't be one of the would have, could have or should have people that wake up with regrets.
in addition
The "overnight successes" we hear of don't really exist. The Ken Griffey Jr's of the world that were drafted at 19 didn't just happen overnight; he wasn't just born with the abilities to play baseball; the skills weren't just given to him. He started playing the game and putting in the time 5-10 years earlier than most kids did; He was also fortunate to be around the game constantly.
You all know Tiger Woods story; Taking golf lessons at 3. Nobody but one person wanted to teach him at that age. His Dad finally found a coach that would. Point is: they were disciplined and didn't let little distractions keep them from their goals.
Again, there is no such thing as an overnight success; daily habits, choices and behaviors over a period of time add up.
My challenge to you is to find out the very best pitching routines for you (workouts, throwing schedules, core work, cardio etc) and never miss a day no matter what. The truth is there will be times you feel your performance didn't match the effort you are putting in. You will want to go hang out with your friends during your schedule workout time instead of working out. You will feel a lone at times in finding the road to your success, but guess what? You will succeed if you push through it.
Now is the time to start establishing your daily habits that are going to take you where you want to go!
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