Ah, right he did 😂😂😂 Well sawamura is talented but he just didn't know. I am really happy he got his ace number in lastest chapter. My baby has grow up 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I am not sure if change up is that hard to throw. You find a grip that you can throw accurately with and throw it the same way you do a fastball and it should come out of the hand a few MPH slower to mess with the batter's timing.
Matthew Marin no man I’ll take mine down it’s not your fault and it did look like he was dabbing 😂 but I’ll take mine down. Sorry man. Edit: wanna be internet friends
My favorite is that screwball. I used to throw that pitch in high school. It was like my secret weapon. Those guys, a lot of times, wouldn’t even swing at it. My friend, who was actually catcher, threw this crazy knuckleball. That’s still the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen, haha!
If you're going to count the Slurve, basically a curve changeup, as its own pitch, then you should count 2 seam (sinker), 4 seam, and cutters as their own pitches. The splitter is just the 80's variation of the historic forkball and should be combined. It's sad that the top 3 hardest pitches to throw are all pretty much extinct in today's game
I think he's basically grouping them because your wrist typically has the same motion in all those pitches just different finger placement. But I agree with you
Cristiaan Aguilar he throws 2 curves and 2 sliders, he throws his slow curve around 70, and a faster curve around 80. With the slider he throws 1 at 84 or 85, and one at 87-88. With both he throws the slower in 1-1 or 0-0 counts, and the faster one for strike outs.
Yeah and it took him a month to get back up to that this year, he dipped so much then exploded back to form only to lose the game again. It's weird I feel like all of a sudden there has been a curse put on whoever wins the cy young for the Sox first Pom won it barely then sucked the year Sale won it now Sale sucks. Though none of them are even decent this year We've had what five or so dominant performances? Most end up with a choke from them, reliever or closer I think there has been at most two three great one that ended up in wins, we easily could be at least tied with the Yanks and if a certain guy who wants a Payday would be playing like he wants it we'd easily have won 15 or more games.
IMO, it is much easier to throw a mediocre changeup than to throw a mediocre curveball. Now a good changeup, on the other hand, is much harder to throw, so I guess if youre ranking by hardest to throw well its correct, but any joe schmo can put 3 fingers on the ball and take a little off
a changeup is NOT just putting an extra finger on the ball and taking a little bit off the pitch!!! There are several different grips that are used ie a "Circle Changeup" google the grip, and the arm velocity and angle stays exactly the same as throwing a fastball. Guys on the MLB level would water at the mouth if a guy only slowed his arm speed down and used 3 fingers on the ball. its way to obvious for a professional. It may work in Little League but wont work at very much of a higher level than that.
Corben_ Peach I’ve got a 4 seam, a sinker, a slider and a 12-6. I’ve never really needed a change up since my sinker works like one with it being about 9mph slower. But it’s always been annoying that I can’t throw a change to save my life.
This is a great video! Thank you for putting it together. I still don’t understand the pitches though because of the camera angles. Seems like directly behind 2nd would be better for the fans instead of an angle like this. Of course, I know there’s nothing you can do about that. Is there a video anywhere of a person showing how to hold the ball for each pitch, explaining what the ball will do, and then pitching it? Maybe with a camera behind the pitcher so we can see the ball activity?
I used to throw a sidearm screwball. Much easier pronating your forearm from sidearm IMO. I used to throw a forkball too but I don't understand how the ones displayed had no spin.
Im late, ik. Not neccesarily a balk. If he does that every single time, its no balk. If he changes it during that game, for example he does it only once, it IS a balk.
Everybody who’s saying change-ups are easier to throw than curveballs/sliders have clearly never pitched. At least not at a high level. People need to understand that a change-up is not simply a “slower fastball” it’s gripped very differently and to be effective has to be the same arm action as the fastball to fool the hitter into swinging too early. Simply lobbing the ball up there and calling it a change-up is a good way of getting pulled in the second inning.
Call me out if I am way off base on this, but there is actually difference between a Split-Fingered Fastball & a Forkball. Though people use the terms interchangeably, they are not the same pitch. They are related, but slightly different. The grips & pressure points are slightly different. True, the actions have a same break. But because of their differences, the break on a Split-Fingered Fastball is more extreme, and thus can be more effective. But a key requirement of being able to throw a good Split-Fingered fastball is you have to have large hands for the grip required on that. If you don't have large hands, smaller hands, you are better off developing a consistent Forkball. The last pitcher I remember with a great Forkball was Hideo Nomo.
Eli Pascual ever hear of kenley Jansen? David Robertson? David price? Justin Verlander? Those are all pitching right now. How is Mariano the only one to perfect it?
Baseball Worldwide because he only threw the cutter for 20 years and everyone knew what pitch was coming and they still couldn’t hit it. The others mix in 4 seem fastballs along with their other offspeeds
It is a very hard pitch to throw and it is very hard on your arm. Cutters puts tremendous stress on the ulnar collateral ligament and so it has ended a lot of pitchers' careers due to needing of TJS
I would add the very rare classic eephus or "blooper" pitch with the steep height and eephus like pitches which are basically any breaking ball thrown at unusually slow speeds. Also, a type of changeup known as a "palm" ball is quite difficult to master. Any baseball history buff remembers the towering homer Ted Williams hit off of the originator of the eephus pitch, Rip Sewell in the 1946 All Star Game. A even more famous eephus pitch disaster happened in the 1975 World Series when Tony Perez for the Reds clobbered a HR off Bill "Spaceman" Lee of the Red Sox who was waiting for the pitch. That being said, these odd pitches can be very effective against many hitters when thrown at the right time but requires a lot of skill.
Change is the easiest, just pick your method - circle change (make OK with thumb and index and hold ball with last three fingers), a palm or choke ball (put ball further into your hand and away from finger tips) or forkball (like a splitter but wider assuming your hand is big or supple enough). Throw all three as hard as you can.
Like my coach told me in high school, the only people that throw knuckleballs are people that cannot pitch anymore and do not have their stuff anymore or never had it. Ra Dickey's was a adjustment because he was getting rocked and could barely hit 90. Don't know much history on Wakefield but I would assume it's close to the same
I think the splitter is harder to learn than a fastball. I know they are both considered fastballs but the splitter is a lot harder to hold and throw for strikes/chasing pitches. It’s really easy to hang.
@@taylorjames2886 Work on your 2 seam and pitching mechanics that will lead to higher velocity. It will pay off more once you reach high school and beyond. b
as a novice, I am amazed at how people can tell what pitches are being thrown. ... there are no beaming lights that guide the ball's trajectory like in Daiya no Ace, so they all look the same to me man, baseball's awesome
not sure if this guy doesnt watch baseball, but a good changeup is rare in baseball. Not sure if this guy has ever pitched, as throwing an effective changeup is insanely difficult to get down pat.
@@baseballworldwide9439 Why? It's a normal pitch just with less effort. I mainly play golf, but I can hit 3/4 shots with ease (they're actually easier than full shots).
Joe Blow lol I’ll assume you mean fastball when you say normal pitch. The 2 and 4-seams as well as the cutter and splitter each have different grips but are all thrown the same way. The change up has its own grip as well (a few of them) and the key to a good change up is to be able to throw it with the same arm angle and arm velocity as a fastball but then having the pitch basically fall of at the end of it. A good change up is a hard pitch to throw.
1. A well-thrown knuckleball 2. the Randy Johnson slider to the left-handers 3. Fernando Valenzuela screwball 4. the classic Nolan Ryan fastball These are the 4 least hittable pitches I've ever seen. And honorable mention to Greg Maddux who threw the ball EXACTLY where he intended it to go.
Not at all. A slurve is pretty much just a bad slider. But a curve and a slider are completely different pitches. You throw a curve different than any other pitch, snapping your wrist down to make it spin forward instead of backward. A slider is thrown more like a fastball, but with your fingers outside the ball and with a twist of the wrist to make it spin sideways.
To me, a change-up is the most underrated pitch in baseball. I frankly don't know why pitchers don't use it more. Even if you don't locate it perfectly, if you've thrown one or more fastballs before, it just messes up the batters timing and he can look very foolish at the plate. The main key is to make sure your delivery is just like the fastball, the only difference should be where you grip the baseball. But the batter can't see that from where he bats.
Two of the best pitchers to study regarding an effective change-up that come to mind are John Tudor and Bob Ojeda. They were successful with it even though they had a below average to average fastball, which makes their success more impressive than if they had an above average fastball (e.g. Mario Soto) to compliment it.
I'm not sure what happened to baseball over the years but there seems to now be 1000 different names for the same pitch. The way it was (traditionally)...... is you had your *fastball* (which generally went straight and fast), your *curveball* (which made a long loop and broke both down and sideways), your *slider* (which was a "tighter", more compact curveball that was thrown at a higher velocity), a *sinker* (which looked like a fastball and was thrown with similar velocity but which the "bottom fell out of"), your *changeup* (a pitch thrown with a fastball delivery that was a SLOW pitch), a *knuckleball* (a pitch thrown with no spin on it which would break randomly), and finally a *screwball* (a reverse curveball that would break down and sideways with the opposite motion). In MLB history (at least in my lifetime), there have never been more than a handful of pitchers who could throw a knuckleball or a screwball at any one point in time. They are baseball's most difficult pitches to throw of all time. Period. - Now when you say "forkball", what you mean is SINKER. - When you say "offspeed" pitch, what you mean is CHANGEUP. - When you say "breaking ball", what you mean is any of the above pitches I mentioned other than the fastball (because they ALL break). - When you say "cutter", what you mean is a pitch that is a cross between a fastball and a screwball. - When you say "two seam fastball" (ie: forkball/pitch that drops), what you mean is a SINKER. - When you say "four seam fastball", what you mean is a FASTBALL. *Historical note:* For all intents and purposes, due to negative connotations surrounding the name, the pitch formerly referred to as a "screw ball" is basically today's "cutter". You will never hear anyone use the screwball name any more. So Mariano Rivera's deadliest and most famous pitch is basically what I described. He was a right handed pitcher who threw that pitch and it broke in towards a right-handed batter. Again, knowing that only around 5 pitchers in all of baseball could ever throw a screw ball, it was an extremely rare pitch and hitters basically never saw it and didn't know how to hit it. Of course today, many pitchers have a "cutter" as part of their arsenal now. So that pitch is now the most popular that it has ever been.
Pardon my ignorance for I’m just a casual baseball fan maybe not even that but in my opinion it seems hard for an umpire to constantly get the strike zone consistent with accurate calls would it be fair to use the electronic box system for accuracy or is the human error the beauty of the sport?
i just learned how to throw a cutter yesterday, and that has a lot of movement so i use for when i have a lead in the count. I throw four seam, two seam, and cutter. Working on knuckle
Nastiest pitch I've ever seen was the circle change that Greg Maddux used to throw to left handers. Doc Halladay mastered it; Kyle Hendricks has got it, too.
no one asked but i remember there was a time i was pitching in minor league and i tried to throw a knuckleball and it left my hands and hit the ground like 3 feet from me. The laughter i received that whole day is still stuck in my head
I think many could pitchers could throw it if they wanted to but not many pitchers would dare to throw it regularly due to the damage it does to your arm. Kinda like the splitter
Kindve a vague order.. only the last 4 er so should actually be mentioned. IME, finding someone e who can throw a legit screwball is the most rarest find.. 3. Knuckleball 2. Fork 1. Screwball
Good video. I would have shown Jamie Moyer throwing the change up. He reportedly had a couple different versions of it even. The best slider I ever saw came out of the hands of Steve Carlton.
A splitter is a type of fastball. Thats pretty much undisputed. Split your fingers, and snap your wrist downward at release. Throwing a quality splitter is difficult, but not harder than any of the pitches in front of it.
It's called a fastball, but it isn't really a fastball. It's an off-speed pitch that's a derivation of a forkball. A fastball relies on a lot of backspin to generate vertical lift. A splitter/forkball tries to remove that backspin.
Hector Santiago frequently uses the screwball. He was shown in the video throwing the pitch. The thing is, the standard angle for recording the pitcher makes a screwball thrown by a lefty hard to see. Here's a video of Yu Darvish throwing a screwball, he's a righty (but he stopped using it because it caused him shoulder problems). ua-cam.com/video/ZCb4yS2T6EU/v-deo.html Here's a video of another professional righty who uses the pitch. ua-cam.com/video/HpzsHVU4FZA/v-deo.html
Pixelated PEKKA at that age man don’t be focusing on velocity. Be focusing on executing your pitches and developing a good pitch mix. Learn to throw quality strikes with your stuff. Also, make sure you’re throwing your curveball properly so you aren’t hurting your arm. Throwing hard at your age truly doesn’t mean anything. You need to be able to throw quality strikes with all your pitches. Best of luck
You shouldn’t be throwing a curveball. You’re 12. It also doesn’t matter how fast a curve is, it’s about how much it breaks. Just because a pitcher throws a fast curveball high in the zone doesn’t mean the batter doesn’t crush it. It’s about how you can make it move low in the zone north to south
Slider is easier than a curve in my opinion because you can throw it with almost the same grip as a two seamer but the split was always the tough one of the main stable of pitches....screwball is by far tougher than a knuckler too. 8.fastball 7.slider 6.slurve 5.curveball 4.changeup 3.knuckleball 2.splitter 1.screwball
The hardest pitch for me is a strike
agree
Same
Same I can’t even throw a ball I’m that bad
Dude I throw hard and accurately but I’m not a pitcher I’m a catcher
@@HEXBasmentBubba dang. Sounds like you should be an outfielder instead
hardest pitches to throw
sawamura: hold my beer
Daiya no Ace.... Taste
indee
Lamo
Hold his natto.
@@UWBadgers10 hahhahahhaha
Hardest pitch to throw: #5 changeup
Sawamura : learned how to pitch changeup overnight
Ah yes
He practised also before the match
Ah, right he did 😂😂😂
Well sawamura is talented but he just didn't know.
I am really happy he got his ace number in lastest chapter.
My baby has grow up 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
HAHAHAHAHA our boy Sawamura. 😂
I am not sure if change up is that hard to throw. You find a grip that you can throw accurately with and throw it the same way you do a fastball and it should come out of the hand a few MPH slower to mess with the batter's timing.
What I learned
Curve = Breaking Ball
Changeup = Breaking Ball
Slider = Breaking Ball
Verlisify okay you are by far the last person I would expect on a baseball video lmao.
thynoblelegend i never said he couldnt though?
@Verlisify you are correct, those are all nasty breaking balls
Forkball= Breaking ball / Knuckeball 😂😂😂
Welcome to baseball
Should be “hardest pitches to catch”
Amanda Noland for real for real!!!
Exactly.
Throwing a knuckle ball is easy
You sound dumb ass hell
@@_AngeLitA ?
Yup
0:21 did the ump just dab 😂
Matthew Marin no man I’ll take mine down it’s not your fault and it did look like he was dabbing 😂 but I’ll take mine down. Sorry man. Edit: wanna be internet friends
There I took mine down, I wouldn’t want to be that guy who is a douche to make other people upset, I’m not about that.
George Scudiero no need to apologize and sure we can become friends 😄
OMG He did 😂
Yes, yes he did.
Skrewballs are easy.
I can pitch those in wii sports
Wooow lol
lol 😂😂
Yeah the secret is the A button
xD
Gilberton de culiacan
My favorite is that screwball. I used to throw that pitch in high school. It was like my secret weapon. Those guys, a lot of times, wouldn’t even swing at it. My friend, who was actually catcher, threw this crazy knuckleball. That’s still the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen, haha!
Im sure eijun sawamura will learn it all marked my word
GAMEPLAY he doesn’t have the finger dexterity to throw curveballs
Lol
i didnt expect this comment
Facts
Hahahaha. ACE diamond
1:00 RIP What a talent this kid was
I miss it too but it is his fault why he died
If you're going to count the Slurve, basically a curve changeup, as its own pitch, then you should count 2 seam (sinker), 4 seam, and cutters as their own pitches. The splitter is just the 80's variation of the historic forkball and should be combined. It's sad that the top 3 hardest pitches to throw are all pretty much extinct in today's game
The slurve is it's own pitch the fastballs are not
as slurve is not a curve and change up. it’s a curve and sinker. it’s in the name da
A slurve is a curve thrown like a slider
I literally throw one
@@awesomeblake2276 yes
The last few are all fastballs though, the mechanics don't change all that much the grip does
Ace of Diamonds brings me here.
Same 😭😭
Eijun sawamuras "numbers" 😃😃
Huge difference between a 2 seam and a splitter.
I think he's basically grouping them because your wrist typically has the same motion in all those pitches just different finger placement. But I agree with you
I was thinking the same thing. And a splitter and a forkball are pretty much the same thing.
@@michaelfadian splitter falls more dramatically but forkball has a less sudden shift.They are different
Maybe he meant sinker idk
The darvish curve balls were actually his slider
Jacob Geist No those are 12-6 curves
Ryan H no his curve is around 70
Cristiaan Aguilar he throws 2 curves and 2 sliders, he throws his slow curve around 70, and a faster curve around 80. With the slider he throws 1 at 84 or 85, and one at 87-88. With both he throws the slower in 1-1 or 0-0 counts, and the faster one for strike outs.
Ryan H your right, I forget that he throws the two different curve balls
Jacob Geist Now that I look closer at how he throws them I'm pretty sure his first one is a slider, and his second one is his 12-6 curve.
Bruh, Chris Sale was dotting the corner at 99, and 100.5 at Fenway in the 7th. He's incredible.
Yeah and it took him a month to get back up to that this year, he dipped so much then exploded back to form only to lose the game again. It's weird I feel like all of a sudden there has been a curse put on whoever wins the cy young for the Sox first Pom won it barely then sucked the year Sale won it now Sale sucks. Though none of them are even decent this year We've had what five or so dominant performances? Most end up with a choke from them, reliever or closer I think there has been at most two three great one that ended up in wins, we easily could be at least tied with the Yanks and if a certain guy who wants a Payday would be playing like he wants it we'd easily have won 15 or more games.
Until August lol
furuya can pitch fork ball,kawakami can pitch slider, sawamura can pitch changeup,curve ball...am i missing something
Sinker for Kawakami as well
IMO, it is much easier to throw a mediocre changeup than to throw a mediocre curveball. Now a good changeup, on the other hand, is much harder to throw, so I guess if youre ranking by hardest to throw well its correct, but any joe schmo can put 3 fingers on the ball and take a little off
xP0WERH0USEx yeah that’s what I was shooting for. Even then you teach a guy to pull his arm down with the curve he can make it bend.
xP0WERH0USEx so true
True, I throw more of a 12-6 curve, and tbh I find the curve much easier to locate than my trophy change.
Aka me
a changeup is NOT just putting an extra finger on the ball and taking a little bit off the pitch!!! There are several different grips that are used ie a "Circle Changeup" google the grip, and the arm velocity and angle stays exactly the same as throwing a fastball. Guys on the MLB level would water at the mouth if a guy only slowed his arm speed down and used 3 fingers on the ball. its way to obvious for a professional. It may work in Little League but wont work at very much of a higher level than that.
Eijun Sawamura 😂😂😂
2:43 Jesus Christ that was so loud
@@henryturner7586
No
I cant throw a change up to save my life
Corben_ Peach feels bad man
Same I work off two fastballs and a curve
Took me 3 years to figure it out. Feels bad.
Corben_ Peach I’ve got a 4 seam, a sinker, a slider and a 12-6. I’ve never really needed a change up since my sinker works like one with it being about 9mph slower. But it’s always been annoying that I can’t throw a change to save my life.
Big hands is the key my dude
2:00 tf how do you even hit that
cover drive lol
Maybe its different for you but for me it is 1:56
that's the point
you dont
This is a great video! Thank you for putting it together. I still don’t understand the pitches though because of the camera angles. Seems like directly behind 2nd would be better for the fans instead of an angle like this. Of course, I know there’s nothing you can do about that. Is there a video anywhere of a person showing how to hold the ball for each pitch, explaining what the ball will do, and then pitching it? Maybe with a camera behind the pitcher so we can see the ball activity?
I used to throw a sidearm screwball. Much easier pronating your forearm from sidearm IMO. I used to throw a forkball too but I don't understand how the ones displayed had no spin.
When I'm batting, changeups are the ones I find difficult to hit the most. They just give you false hopes man.
1:00 Jose Fernandez awww
0:17 look at Chapmans psycho Eyes bout to throw 100+
That curve from Vrlander against the Yankees still cracks me up to this day. Dude straight chopped at the ball like a sword lmao
And Josh Donaldson just did the same thing lol
0:52, was that a balk?
yes it was
Im late, ik.
Not neccesarily a balk. If he does that every single time, its no balk. If he changes it during that game, for example he does it only once, it IS a balk.
No, that’s what he does for every pitch, it’s his routine
Everybody who’s saying change-ups are easier to throw than curveballs/sliders have clearly never pitched. At least not at a high level. People need to understand that a change-up is not simply a “slower fastball” it’s gripped very differently and to be effective has to be the same arm action as the fastball to fool the hitter into swinging too early. Simply lobbing the ball up there and calling it a change-up is a good way of getting pulled in the second inning.
Dat Boi This ^^^^^^^
Throwing a true 12-6 curve is still harder tho. Especially if u pronate to help ur change
Actually developing a good cutter in incredibly difficult. When thrown improperly it can become a really bad slider.
Call me out if I am way off base on this, but there is actually difference between a Split-Fingered Fastball & a Forkball. Though people use the terms interchangeably, they are not the same pitch. They are related, but slightly different. The grips & pressure points are slightly different. True, the actions have a same break. But because of their differences, the break on a Split-Fingered Fastball is more extreme, and thus can be more effective. But a key requirement of being able to throw a good Split-Fingered fastball is you have to have large hands for the grip required on that. If you don't have large hands, smaller hands, you are better off developing a consistent Forkball. The last pitcher I remember with a great Forkball was Hideo Nomo.
If a cutter is an easy pitch why is mariano the only one to perfect it
Eli Pascual ever hear of kenley Jansen? David Robertson? David price? Justin Verlander? Those are all pitching right now. How is Mariano the only one to perfect it?
Baseball Worldwide because he only threw the cutter for 20 years and everyone knew what pitch was coming and they still couldn’t hit it. The others mix in 4 seem fastballs along with their other offspeeds
Doesn’t mean it is a hard pitch to throw... Really dude?
It is a very hard pitch to throw and it is very hard on your arm. Cutters puts tremendous stress on the ulnar collateral ligament and so it has ended a lot of pitchers' careers due to needing of TJS
The pitch itself is easy to throw, as it's just a fastball with a modified grip. Mo was just better at throwing it.
I would add the very rare classic eephus or "blooper" pitch with the steep height and eephus like pitches which are basically any breaking ball thrown at unusually slow speeds. Also, a type of changeup known as a "palm" ball is quite difficult to master. Any baseball history buff remembers the towering homer Ted Williams hit off of the originator of the eephus pitch, Rip Sewell in the 1946 All Star Game. A even more famous eephus pitch disaster happened in the 1975 World Series when Tony Perez for the Reds clobbered a HR off Bill "Spaceman" Lee of the Red Sox who was waiting for the pitch. That being said, these odd pitches can be very effective against many hitters when thrown at the right time but requires a lot of skill.
Love the pitches, just feel bad for the catchers trying to grab that stuff!!LOL
Change is the easiest, just pick your method - circle change (make OK with thumb and index and hold ball with last three fingers), a palm or choke ball (put ball further into your hand and away from finger tips) or forkball (like a splitter but wider assuming your hand is big or supple enough). Throw all three as hard as you can.
Great forkball there. Imagine if Steve Carlton or Nolan Ryan would have had a knuckleball. They would have had 50 no hitters.
don’t even have to watch, #1 is gonna be knuckleball
Yup
I saw this title and I said, “Knuckleball.”
Like my coach told me in high school, the only people that throw knuckleballs are people that cannot pitch anymore and do not have their stuff anymore or never had it. Ra Dickey's was a adjustment because he was getting rocked and could barely hit 90. Don't know much history on Wakefield but I would assume it's close to the same
RIP 16
Yah man, rip to a man who killed three others driving a boat while on cocaine...
@@chasehamilton2867 RIP 16
He wasn’t on cocaine it was really early in the morning he couldn’t see that there was a rock in the water and crashed. R.I.P Fernandez
Levi Poulter he did take cocaine.
@@levipoulter9321 he did take cocaine tho, I read a whole article on it, R.I.P
I think the splitter is harder to learn than a fastball. I know they are both considered fastballs but the splitter is a lot harder to hold and throw for strikes/chasing pitches. It’s really easy to hang.
My choice:
#1 knuckleball
#2 sinker
#3 changeup
#4 screwball
I throw a Nasty Screwball and I'm 13
@@taylorjames2886 Work on your 2 seam and pitching mechanics that will lead to higher velocity. It will pay off more once you reach high school and beyond.
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As a cricket bowler this was fun to watch
Hardest pitch
Goro Shigeno: Hold my Gyrofork
Hahahaha
Gyroballer life
as a novice, I am amazed at how people can tell what pitches are being thrown. ... there are no beaming lights that guide the ball's trajectory like in Daiya no Ace, so they all look the same to me
man, baseball's awesome
they dont look the same at all
Baseball Worldwide my eyes are bad ☹️ I suck and can’t tell the difference
Way to go, Japanese pitchers! It proves Japanese pitchers are possibly the best of the world. Btw check Senga Koudai, he is a monster.
I love Japanese pitching school. It's all pure technique and mechanics. Their approach to pitching is more efficient.
Yup! Agree. They have some of the best pitchers worldwide.
I came here after watching ace no daiya wondering what's sawamura pitches look like in real life 😂😂😂😂
Idk if this guy has ever played baseball the changup is the second thing you learn and is very simple
not sure if this guy doesnt watch baseball, but a good changeup is rare in baseball. Not sure if this guy has ever pitched, as throwing an effective changeup is insanely difficult to get down pat.
@@baseballworldwide9439 yea man changeups are hard to throw
@@baseballworldwide9439 when they are good
@@baseballworldwide9439 Why? It's a normal pitch just with less effort. I mainly play golf, but I can hit 3/4 shots with ease (they're actually easier than full shots).
Joe Blow lol I’ll assume you mean fastball when you say normal pitch. The 2 and 4-seams as well as the cutter and splitter each have different grips but are all thrown the same way. The change up has its own grip as well (a few of them) and the key to a good change up is to be able to throw it with the same arm angle and arm velocity as a fastball but then having the pitch basically fall of at the end of it. A good change up is a hard pitch to throw.
I dont even like baseball all that much but seeing it be huge in japan makes me happy for some reason
"Hardest pitches to throw"
"Ranked easist to hardest"
1. A well-thrown knuckleball
2. the Randy Johnson slider to the left-handers
3. Fernando Valenzuela screwball
4. the classic Nolan Ryan fastball
These are the 4 least hittable pitches I've ever seen.
And honorable mention to Greg Maddux who threw the ball EXACTLY where he intended it to go.
You're gonna talk about sliders and slurves and not bring up Corey Kluber once? Bold choice...
slaytallica250 lol I wasn’t showcasing the best pitches, just ones that I came across early.
Changeup - a true changeup - should be way higher on the list. Curve/slurve/slider are just variations on a theme - same pitch.
Not at all. A slurve is pretty much just a bad slider. But a curve and a slider are completely different pitches. You throw a curve different than any other pitch, snapping your wrist down to make it spin forward instead of backward. A slider is thrown more like a fastball, but with your fingers outside the ball and with a twist of the wrist to make it spin sideways.
Everything is a fastball just how it spins if ur thinking that way lol
Is a eephus considered a pitch than?
Moto-Z Giraffe technically, but it’s not that difficult to throw
I have thrown that pitch
sometimes
I CAN ONLY NAME 1 PITCHER WHO THROWS EEPHUSES: BRAYAN PENA
@@keece8472 Zack Greinke
Whats the diference between a forkball and a knukcleball??
Slider is much easier to throw than a curve in my opinion
They’re about the same
Tru
Slider hurts my wrist a bit more than a curveball.
To me, a change-up is the most underrated pitch in baseball. I frankly don't know why pitchers don't use it more. Even if you don't locate it perfectly, if you've thrown one or more fastballs before, it just messes up the batters timing and he can look very foolish at the plate. The main key is to make sure your delivery is just like the fastball, the only difference should be where you grip the baseball. But the batter can't see that from where he bats.
Two of the best pitchers to study regarding an effective change-up that come to mind are John Tudor and Bob Ojeda. They were successful with it even though they had a below average to average fastball, which makes their success more impressive than if they had an above average fastball (e.g. Mario Soto) to compliment it.
I'm not sure what happened to baseball over the years but there seems to now be 1000 different names for the same pitch. The way it was (traditionally)...... is you had your *fastball* (which generally went straight and fast), your *curveball* (which made a long loop and broke both down and sideways), your *slider* (which was a "tighter", more compact curveball that was thrown at a higher velocity), a *sinker* (which looked like a fastball and was thrown with similar velocity but which the "bottom fell out of"), your *changeup* (a pitch thrown with a fastball delivery that was a SLOW pitch), a *knuckleball* (a pitch thrown with no spin on it which would break randomly), and finally a *screwball* (a reverse curveball that would break down and sideways with the opposite motion).
In MLB history (at least in my lifetime), there have never been more than a handful of pitchers who could throw a knuckleball or a screwball at any one point in time. They are baseball's most difficult pitches to throw of all time. Period.
- Now when you say "forkball", what you mean is SINKER.
- When you say "offspeed" pitch, what you mean is CHANGEUP.
- When you say "breaking ball", what you mean is any of the above pitches I mentioned other than the fastball (because they ALL break).
- When you say "cutter", what you mean is a pitch that is a cross between a fastball and a screwball.
- When you say "two seam fastball" (ie: forkball/pitch that drops), what you mean is a SINKER.
- When you say "four seam fastball", what you mean is a FASTBALL.
*Historical note:* For all intents and purposes, due to negative connotations surrounding the name, the pitch formerly referred to as a "screw ball" is basically today's "cutter". You will never hear anyone use the screwball name any more. So Mariano Rivera's deadliest and most famous pitch is basically what I described. He was a right handed pitcher who threw that pitch and it broke in towards a right-handed batter. Again, knowing that only around 5 pitchers in all of baseball could ever throw a screw ball, it was an extremely rare pitch and hitters basically never saw it and didn't know how to hit it. Of course today, many pitchers have a "cutter" as part of their arsenal now. So that pitch is now the most popular that it has ever been.
Pardon my ignorance for I’m just a casual baseball fan maybe not even that but in my opinion it seems hard for an umpire to constantly get the strike zone consistent with accurate calls would it be fair to use the electronic box system for accuracy or is the human error the beauty of the sport?
I can throw a forkball, but somehow can't throw a curveball to save my life.
i just learned how to throw a cutter yesterday, and that has a lot of movement so i use for when i have a lead in the count. I throw four seam, two seam, and cutter. Working on knuckle
Ace of diamond hahahahah
Awesome video bro! 👍👍👍
Nastiest pitch I've ever seen was the circle change that Greg Maddux used to throw to left handers. Doc Halladay mastered it; Kyle Hendricks has got it, too.
Pedro's was better
no one asked but i remember there was a time i was pitching in minor league and i tried to throw a knuckleball and it left my hands and hit the ground like 3 feet from me. The laughter i received that whole day is still stuck in my head
Who else thought he meant like already pitched and the speed was the hardest
Those 2 forkball pitches were nasty
Did you really have to bully me and put in Jose Fernandez I’m gonna hurt you
RIP
Why does everybody care about Fernandez like he was Jesus?
Jonathan Allard, would you be sad if a relative of yours died.
@@ttvurmom6185 Random people aren't relatives. Hence my question.
I’m giving an example, stupid.
I can pitch a knuckleball like it's nothing but I can't throw a slider or curve to save my life. Any advice?
I think the screwball is harder to throw.
Agreed. They (Santiago because he's the only mlb pitcher who throws one) have to twist their arm inwards...
I think many could pitchers could throw it if they wanted to but not many pitchers would dare to throw it regularly due to the damage it does to your arm. Kinda like the splitter
Watching this because of Ace of diamond. Just curious about real life baseball.
R A Dickey best knuckleball pitcher ever
No phil neikro
Tim wakefield
Phil is hof
the one seam sinker was taught to me by a friend and we treated it like the ultimate teqnique
How is a two seam fastball hard to throw??
Im Acts the pitches are ranked easiest to hardest
Floating fastball. Where the spinrate causes some lift, where the ball doesn't fall normally and it's hard to track and hit.
If you get enough control the 2 seam starts to move
Is a slurve like a slider and curveball?
these literally look like all the same pitches
But they really aren't
found the guy that has never played baseball
did yall sensitive baseball deep throaters hear me say they are all the same pitch lmao? i said they look the fucking same
@@itshyperbole9895 yeah
Yes but, no
you know it feels good when you could throw some of these
Yea like a slider
Title should've been the hardest pitches to hit is baseball
Ace no gaya brought me here😂
The fact that this vid has 666 comments is crazy time to ruin it 😂
Guy that throws a change with the same exact motion as his heater...owned me in my baseball career.
“Curveball”
“A good breaking ball from...”
What about that, a curve is a breaking ball
@@liamvelasco7340 yes but, no
Junk ball pitches ought to be legal again - Spitball, mudball, and the shine ball to name a few
Kindve a vague order.. only the last 4 er so should actually be mentioned. IME, finding someone e who can throw a legit screwball is the most rarest find..
3. Knuckleball
2. Fork
1. Screwball
“You know how you can find out that pitchers are throwing forkballs? Because the catcher keeps missing balls” ~ Pete Rose
True Dat 😂
Good video. I would have shown Jamie Moyer throwing the change up. He reportedly had a couple different versions of it even.
The best slider I ever saw came out of the hands of Steve Carlton.
Hardest for me is the slider, I throw sidearm so the slurve comes naturally but the slider always comes out early and ends up in the righty box
Why do u consider a splitter a fastball? And I’m pretty sure that’s not one of the easiest pitches to throw too.
A splitter is a type of fastball. Thats pretty much undisputed. Split your fingers, and snap your wrist downward at release. Throwing a quality splitter is difficult, but not harder than any of the pitches in front of it.
It's called a fastball, but it isn't really a fastball. It's an off-speed pitch that's a derivation of a forkball. A fastball relies on a lot of backspin to generate vertical lift. A splitter/forkball tries to remove that backspin.
I’ve never seen betances pitch from the stretch like that. What year was this clip from?
A screwball breaks the opposite of a curve, get some new footage for that one😉
Todd Mcdonald I challenge you to find one video of a screwball in the majors
Baseball Worldwide ,thanks for the vindication! You obviously haven't found one either lol
Todd Mcdonald hector Santiago actually throws a screwball and baseball worldwide was correct so lol😂😒
Just search for Jim Mecir.
Hector Santiago frequently uses the screwball. He was shown in the video throwing the pitch. The thing is, the standard angle for recording the pitcher makes a screwball thrown by a lefty hard to see. Here's a video of Yu Darvish throwing a screwball, he's a righty (but he stopped using it because it caused him shoulder problems). ua-cam.com/video/ZCb4yS2T6EU/v-deo.html Here's a video of another professional righty who uses the pitch. ua-cam.com/video/HpzsHVU4FZA/v-deo.html
Damn I wish Chapman played for STL haha. That dude brings the heat. Also, Chris sale's slider is a a thing of beauty I must say
So first a splitter and a fastball are so different a forkball and a splitter are the same and these are so out of order
Trickshot Canyons a forkball and splitter are NOT the same, by any means. Also, a splitter IS a fastball. What is out of order exactly?
A splitter is also called a split fastball
Trickshot Canyons are you a major league pitcher?
A fork and a split is not the same pitch.
Trickshot Canyons I
The changeup should be a little higher 😝. It’s a slow fastball lol. Very tricky to figure out before it’s too late!
My curveball topped out at 59 mph. My fastball topped out at 66 mph. I am 12 years old. Is this good?
Pixelated PEKKA how old are you?
It says it right there!
Pixelated PEKKA at that age man don’t be focusing on velocity. Be focusing on executing your pitches and developing a good pitch mix. Learn to throw quality strikes with your stuff. Also, make sure you’re throwing your curveball properly so you aren’t hurting your arm. Throwing hard at your age truly doesn’t mean anything. You need to be able to throw quality strikes with all your pitches. Best of luck
Thanks, man
You shouldn’t be throwing a curveball. You’re 12. It also doesn’t matter how fast a curve is, it’s about how much it breaks. Just because a pitcher throws a fast curveball high in the zone doesn’t mean the batter doesn’t crush it. It’s about how you can make it move low in the zone north to south
I threw a 4seamer, slider, 1seamer(sinker/change), and forkball ...ahh the early 90’s
I like cheesecake
Same bro
Slider is easier than a curve in my opinion because you can throw it with almost the same grip as a two seamer but the split was always the tough one of the main stable of pitches....screwball is by far tougher than a knuckler too.
8.fastball
7.slider
6.slurve
5.curveball
4.changeup
3.knuckleball
2.splitter
1.screwball
madLphnt. It’s subjective lmao
@@baseballworldwide9439 i know i wanted to give my list because of yours lol.
I have the feels for Fernandez 😓
Zachary C I wouldn’t dwell on it too much. It was his choice
What a tragedy
Knuckleball is so damn hard to keep the ball from not spinning. It's my favorite pitch.