Baseball Pitching : How to Throw a Slider
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Mechanics have a big role in throwing a slider in baseball. Strike out batters with a wicked slider with tips from a former major league baseball pitcher in this free video on baseball. Expert: John Riedling Contact: www.nlprospects.com Bio: John Riedling played professional baseball for 13 years, including five years in the major leagues. He pitched for the Cincinnati Reds and the Florida Marlins. Filmmaker: Tim Brown
look up his stats if you wanna know if he rode the bench or not
Please don’t follow this instructions of turning the wrist at the end. Its a good way to hurt your elbow probably more than any other pitch because of the velocity. You really want to grip nearly the outside third of the ball and slightly cock your wrist inwards and throw through the outside of the ball with your index/middle fingers.
I play 3rd
just thit this was cool
mine isn’t consistent now, my curveball wasn’t at first either so hopefully it will be soon
I throw a pretty decent slider right now in 14u baseball and I don’t throw it anywhere close to how he explained
hey stweig, if your in the majors, your good
I hate when coaches say one thing is important, than go on to explain something completely different. He goes on assuming that everyone knows ‘proper mechanics’that the magic is in the grip. I have yet to see ONE coach explain the proper mechanics from A-Z… including proper ARM ACTION!!!!! I think he did ride pine…..
Hey at least he threw it for a strike lol
guys if your lookin to throw a nasty slider, watching a youtube video isnt going to help. Makin your breaking pitch nasty is all about interpretting. In some cases if you dont even know the basics to gripping a slider, than yeah, you need to watch this, but if you want to make your slider truely nasty, you have to interpret, and mess around with variations of this grip, & slightly different throwing motions. Ur breaking ball and FB should have the same throwing motion, but u know what I mean
doesnt make him a good pitcher he probably rode bench
hes a joke and yet he was in the majors?? kkkritte
moron
think elbow problems elbow problem elbow problem..go to steve carlton’s website and learn the correct way..its not a twist of the wrist its wrist position..
this guy is a joke …
enough said
his pitches never move.
i use a 2 seam grip an it breaks alot u should try it
yep (baseballaddictor) would like to see the break and explain to rookies how it should break and what a pitcher is trying to accomplish against a batter… good vids!
Why is his release point so low
dude u have good vids but i kind of wanted to see the movement of the ball
this guy’s better than the old guy.
at least this guys’ pitches dont look exactly the same as all the other ones
no
cause wen u throw a curve ball u flick ur wrist hard and with a slider u dont
like it has the same motion but wen u throw u dont think fast ball
pretty much
do you basically throw it like a curveball?
not bad
watch my vid on curveballs
yes he did you can hit your slider anywhere really. if you want it inside or ouside. just look at brad lidge fot the philadelphia phillies. he has a nasty slider.