This week I am planning to share some simple, and hopefully helpful, guidelines for throwing bullpens.
The first idea is to make sure the pitcher doesn't throw too hard, too soon.Tom House once shared something with me that I tend to use quite often. I ask pitchers to imagine themselves pulling their car out of a driveway. The speed of the car is obviously slower - or should be slower(!) - than the speed to which they accelerate when driving down the freeway.
That gradual increase of speed, from the driveway, to a residential street, down a busy "major" street and to the on ramp of a freeway should be the guideline for arm-acceleration. Rushing this necessary process can and will cause problems.
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