Sentences with phrase «pitch coaching»

Media training, presentation training, and pitch coaching.

So of course I submit it for a Critique Roundtable, Pitch Coaching, Hook Your Book, professional editor discussion, and Pitch Sessions.

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We are also grateful for the guidance and pitch coaching we received from the MaRS team in preparing for this event.»

As pitching coach Rob Friedman pointed out on Twitter, used together, Ohtani's fastball and splitter are absolutely soul - crushing.

Besides helping with product development, go to market strategy and lean startup methodology at the Startup Accelerator program, Z Nation Lab plans to provide support in pitch coach, mentoring, networking, chartered accountants, lawyers, application and web developers and social media marketing support.

Teaching communication skills in the Silicon Valley since 1995, Roy Terry is a professional pitch coach who has served numerous startups in Silicon Valley.

Even when pitching coach Leo Mazzone needs to visit Avery on the mound to buy time for relievers warming up in the Braves» bullpen, he does so with the timidity of a postman headed for the Bumsteads» mailbox.

Baker and pitching coach Dick Pole have done a splendid job in nursing both Swift and John Burkett through the season.

BRAD LIDGE had just sandblasted the Cardinals, throwing two shutout innings to save the Astros» 5 — 2 Game 3 victory in the National League Championship Series last Saturday at Minute Maid Park, when Houston pitching coach Jim Hickey was asked about Lidge's availability for the next day.

In the Home Run Derby, he'll be facing a pitching coach of his choice, who will lob balls down the heart of the plate.

That said, if I were Harvey's pitching coach, the first thing I'd tell him would be to junk that dead - fish slider and learn a cutter.

I think both Snit and Hernandez (pitching coach) should be on short leash.

The pitching coach and bullpen coach are holdovers.

It's the primary joy of pitching coach to develop the amazing array of young pitchers we have.

Here are four other former underachievers enjoying career years thanks to some magic from their pitching coaches

With all the potential Manning brings to the table, it almost seems that it could pay to add pitching coaching to West Michigan.

That project alone could easily occupy a pitching coach and a manager for several years.

«He had limited potential,» says Guy Hansen, who was the Bruins» pitching coach in 1985 before joining the Kansas City Royals.

As long as they don't feel that he is developing long term confidence issues, then get him major league coaching from a respected pitching coach, run him out there.

«If he was playing in the 1950s with that pitch, they'd call it a screwball,» says Red Sox pitching coach Joe Kerrigan, who used to coach Martinez on the Expos.

But I guess of all the people who really help a pitcher most, the pitching coach is the man.

His coaches are Bennie Bengough (11), Wally Moses (32), Andy Seminick (21), who was the Phillie catcher in their pennant - winning year of 1950, and Bill Posedel (31), the pitching coach.

The Reds fired manager Bryan Price and pitching coach Mack Jenkins on Thursday, which seems just a touch unfair.

«With the kind of movement he has on the ball,» says Florida pitching coach Larry Rothschild, «that's the most amazing statistic from last season.»

«What it takes to succeed as a pitcher now is so much more refined than it was 10 years ago,» says St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan.

It involves a pitching coach screaming just the right amount, and the development of a cutter in a secret lab.

• Sutcliffe is what Cub pitching coach Billy Connors calls a «wrist wrapper» — a pitcher who bends the wrist on his throwing hand sharply inward during his windup.

«When a few guys first threw it — guys like Bruce Sutter and Mike Scott — they were unhittable,» Yankees pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre says.

Perhaps a new pitching coach and manager will help.

Last July, Anderson was so flummoxed by the performance of his pitching staff, which had the majors» second - worst ERA in 1995, that he told pitching coach Ralph Treuel and bullpen coach Jeff Jones, «Don't waste one second worrying about this.

I sort of assume everyone's on the same page, with FO, pitching coach, catcher, and pitcher all coming together on ideas about what to throw and where to throw it, but it's possible it's not that unified.

Hitting and pitching coaches are important, but seriously, just make your pinch - hitter the manager.

He was always a hard thrower, but pitching coach Mark Wiley has done a great job of turning him into a pitcher...

Well, I told our pitching coach that I'd stay in the dugout.»

According to Giants announcer Mike Krukow, when a reliever is in a real mess and the pitching coach goes out to talk to him, the discussion isn't about strategy or moral support.

Instead, the pitching coach walks up, says, «Wake up and pee.

In fact, Mazzone says he had informally accepted the job as Yankee's pitching coach that October, when he got a call from Sam Perlozzo, who had also climbed through the minors, broke briefly into the big leagues, and had just been named manager of the Baltimore Orioles.

Pitching coach Bruce Dal Canton has to rein in his young and eager arms, and the Braves have to resist the temptation to bring up their lefthanded sensation, Steve Avery.

Not counting Baltimore, there had been six pitching coach vacancies in the majors that winter.

If we'd have had all the breakdowns that are happening now, there would have been a lot of pitching coaches fired.»

The old pitching coach has spotted something.

After the 2013 season, when Philadelphia's Rich Dubee was fired, Mazzone took to Twitter: @Phillies I would be very interested in being your pitching coach.

A year later Brees met with former major league pitcher Tom House, now 63, a pitching coach at USC with a Ph.D. in performance psychology.

It was enough to catch the attention of the Braves, who offered Mazzone a job as a pitching coach in their minor league system.

When Mazzone left the Braves in 2005, former GM and current president John Schuerholz and Cox told reporters that the pitching coach never approached them about staying, that he had an opportunity to make more money and he took it.

That competitive fire made young Mazzone exactly the kind of pitcher who would drive Mazzone the pitching coach off his rocker — not changing speeds enough, relying on velocity, maxing out, and trying to overpower hitters.

Pitching coaches have to figure out ways to get their pitchers enough work — but not too much too soon.

«Rich has impacted the game of softball as a player, pitching coach, and mentor to many.