Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー)
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Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー)
@BauerOutage
MLB All Star & Cy Young Award winner I teach pitchers how to throw harder with less arm pain Get your free velo guide👇🏻👇🏻
Katılım Eylül 2010
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Shane Bieber never looked like an ace. 91-93 mph, no electric stuff. But he won a Cy Young. Here's why that makes sense.
Most people think you need to throw hard or have nasty stuff to make it to the big leagues. That's not the only path.
The real question is: what elite tool do you have?
For Bieber, it was command. He never walks anybody. That's not a small thing — that's an elite weapon. Pair that with good pitch shapes and you have a real pitcher, even without the velocity.
The honest projection on him coming up was probably a 3 or 4 ERA guy. A solid mid-rotation starter. Nobody was calling him a future ace.
But then something happened. He added velocity. He added more pitch shapes. He developed. And when you stack elite command on top of improved stuff, you get a Cy Young winner.
The lesson here isn't "just throw hard" or "just have good command." It's that you need at least ONE elite tool to have a path. And the fastest path to the big leagues should run through whatever that tool is.
If your one elite tool is velocity, stop trying to develop four average pitches. Throw 100 and get there.
If your one elite tool is command, build around that. The shapes matter more when you can actually locate them.
Bieber is proof that you don't need to look the part. You need to have a real tool and know how to use it.
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Most pitchers destroy their next two weeks by trying to get something out of a bad day. Here's why that's backwards.
Some days your body just doesn't have it. Velocity is down, feel is off, everything is flat.
The instinct is to push through. Throw harder to chase something out of the session. Work on pitch shapes. Try to "fix" things.
That instinct is wrong.
When you throw at low intent, your pitches won't move the way they normally do. Then you panic about your feel. Then you start overgripping, overthinking, overworking. Now you've dug a recovery hole AND messed with your confidence.
Three problems created trying to solve one.
The most productive thing you can do on a day like this is almost nothing. A light, low-intent session that protects your arm and your head is worth more than grinding through a "productive" workout that leaves you wrecked for the next fourteen days.
Not getting something out of today sets you up to get something out of the next two weeks. Trying to get something out of today sets you up to get nothing out of the next two weeks.
My go-to tool for these days: set a velocity ceiling on a radar gun. Pick an easy speed and don't throw above it. Sounds simple. Most pitchers have never actually tried to throw less hard — it forces you to stay disciplined with your intent instead of drifting back into competition mode.
Rest is a skill. Knowing when to back off is part of the training.
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