Comments on: Throwing Programs Of Elite Pitchers

By: Ed Halstead

Ed Halstead — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:02:24 +0000

As usual, Alan Jaeger is on the cutting edge of what makes pitchers and throwers successful. Thank you Alan for your tireless hard work and dedication to a sport we all love.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 22:50:38 +0000

I took my 12 year old to the camp because he was experiencing frequent soreness. Since then, as long as he uses his J-Band, he never has soreness. We change teams a lot and my son has his own routine and the kids literally laugh at him when he does his J-Band. We laugh back! He even had a coach that told him it was stupid, we laughed then too, because not only did all the pitchers on that coaches team have soreness after a tournament (except my son), but he himself is already retired from Pro ball because he blew out his arm.

By: Frank Z

Frank Z — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:17:01 +0000

My son is a catcher and catchers actual throw more them pitchers because they play al the games and throw back to every pitcher in the game so staying in shape for catchers is equally important. He had elbow problems but in the exterior part of the Elsie where the elbow bones meet he saw a specialist and did an MRI nerve test and xray no damage shows but yet he still has pain in that area he can play through it and did last year for college but what he was told is to strength and condition it and get a cotizone shot.
Any thoughts the doctor who saw him works on all the redsox pitchers and patriot players elbows only specialist he cannot understand why the pain exist other than tendinitis

By: Zita Carno

Zita Carno — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:53:06 +0000

I don’t know if you ever met Eddie Lopat, but you would have loved him. He was a key member of the Yankees’ Big Three pitching rotation of 1948-1955, and he was also one of the finest pitching coaches anyone would have given his or her eye teeth to work with. I had the great good fortune to work with him for almost four years, and what I learned from him was nothing short of priceless. He had this basic premise: every pitcher has a natural motion, and whatever that motion was, that was what he would work with. I found this out on the day back in 1951 when he was showing me how to throw a good slider; he was watching me as I set about familiarizing myself with the pitch, and he noted that I was a true, natural, honest-to-gosh sidearmer who, though not very fast, could throw hard, used a slide-step and had picked up and was working with the crossfire. He noted some other things, and he formed in his mind a jumping-off point from which he could work with me.
You are so right. Every pitcher is unique. You could take a whole row of hurlers, and each one would do something a little different—who in the whole universe wants cookie-cutter, robot pitchers? Maybe the manufacturers of cookie cutters, but that’s for cutting cookies and not helping pitchers to make the most of what they have and can do. Lopat knew this, and he saw what I was capable of and worked with me to maximize those capabilities. I became a better, more effective pitcher as a result. And I say, you are to be commended for this insightful discourse on working with pitchers. Thank you.