I was messing around with the Control and velocity drill. I wanted to see jut how bad I was with the current setting of 25 for pitch control. The drill gives you a target of two squares side-by-side to hit. Sometimes they are horizontal, sometime vertical.
At 25, I hit my spot one time, with fastball. That is in 15 tries, three each with five different pitches. So I bumped it up to 100 and hit my spot 15/15 times.
I dropped down to 50, and I still hit my spot 14/15 times.
I dropped to 35, and it was drastically worse. I hit 2/3 on my fast ball and curveball, Carp's best pitches. But I hit just 1/3 on the 2 seam, slider, and change-up.
At 30, it dropped down to 2/3 on the fastball, and I hit just three more pitches the rest of the way.
Now, this is just for hitting the spot. Many of my misses were still strikes. But this seems like a really good way to really get a feel for what kind of effect you will see. I was pleased to see that the sliders had a decent progression, and made a nice difference.
At 25, I hit my spot one time, with fastball. That is in 15 tries, three each with five different pitches. So I bumped it up to 100 and hit my spot 15/15 times.
I dropped down to 50, and I still hit my spot 14/15 times.
I dropped to 35, and it was drastically worse. I hit 2/3 on my fast ball and curveball, Carp's best pitches. But I hit just 1/3 on the 2 seam, slider, and change-up.
At 30, it dropped down to 2/3 on the fastball, and I hit just three more pitches the rest of the way.
Now, this is just for hitting the spot. Many of my misses were still strikes. But this seems like a really good way to really get a feel for what kind of effect you will see. I was pleased to see that the sliders had a decent progression, and made a nice difference.
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