How to Throw a Cutter - Grip, Spin & More 

🚨In this video you can see me throw a 4-seamer (first pitch) followed by a cutter (2nd pitch): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b_4V3q9mRfs.html

Great Video Dan , I would add a 3rd type pitcher Corbin Burnes 😂 The Unicorn the newest Oriole to our Squad😁 he throws the most nasty cutter as a primary pitch ratio for a starting pitcher I have ever seen which he offsets with his sinker.

Great video. Thanks for your effort & Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Always appreciate the quality of the contents, coach! Looking forward to more tutorials.

Easiest pitch for me as a lefty to.throw. it was all on my grip. Instead of across the seams like a 2 seam fast ball, I threw min with the seams. I didn't know what I was throwing but I knew what it did

Great advice

Every pitch I throw has natural cut to it well all my fastballs do I wonder what a cutter would do for me. I'm a very accurate pitcher 3 to 1 ratio on strikes. I think this would improve my game thanks for the tips

This is great. I keep telling my 12u guys "None of y'all throw hard enough for a cutter to cut."

Is there a big velocity difference from ground pitching vs mound difference?

Does the choice to spend time and energy to develop a cutter comes from a high arm slot? So it would be a natural complement to a 6-12 curveball thrower?

I have heard 3 youth players (12U) and below claim they throw a true cutter. Their parents claim they do too. They don’t and I have only seen a single high school kid that actually had a ball cut properly. Also, I bought Pitching isn’t Complicated Dan. Good book for parents that are ignorant to pitching or coaches.

Great video, as always. I have a 12U team. I have a few pitchers that have good command of the fb. I have been working with them in bullpens with spinning, fundamentals of curves, sliders, have had some decent results. So now they get to throw one or two in a game. Wouldn’t be a good idea to start practicing this pitch, say next year to try and develop this over time?

Hey Dan, my 11 year old has been developing pretty good command of his fast ball, and his velocity is getting consistently into the mid 50s. He throws pretty near over the top, lefty, so when i am watching the spin from the catcher position, the seams are moving up from about 630 to 1230. I showed him a couple grips just for fun, including the 3-finger and circle changeup grips. So he tries a couple grips and its not really working well, but he keeps fooling around. Eventually, he winds up gripping the open end of the horseshoe so his index lies along and outside the horseshoe seam, his thumb along and outside the other side of the same horseshoe, so the seam end of the horseshoe completes a circle with his thumb and index, but much bigger than a typical circle changeup grip. He chucks this thing hard and it spins 900 to 300 from my view, fast, but not as fast as his backspin on the 4seamer, and it runs hard to his arm side. It sinks, relative to the 4seam, and its slower. So i stopped him and asked him to show me what his hand is doing. As far as i can tell he's throwing that circle at my glove, and due to the lopsided grip, his hand naturally comes off the inside of the ball. I dont think he is pronating much if at all. Definitely not supinated. I don't let him throw it in a game or his team practices. I only let him throw it at most maybe five times per session when we're practicing at home. It runs maybe 4 to 6 inches to my right over the 45 foot throw. He throws it so the spin axis is vertical and at right angles to the direction of flight. So my questions: What is this pitch? I want to call it a changeup, but I feel like that's supposed to have more backspin and less run. Is it useful? His arm action is almost identical to his 4seam pitch, but the spin is pretty obviously different. Since he's not rolling his hand outward, is it safe? Thanks for any input you might have.

I've been watching all of your stuff, very informative. So a curve ball has top spin and curves down? Is that correct?

my fastball naturally cuts and i struggled throwing a two seamer/sinker/changeup

My cutter has a ton of vertical sliding movement, but I only pitch as a hobby and so I have no velo 😅

Im 14 and throw 75mph, I have a good solid consistent 2 seamer but good hitters are often on it later in the game, I’ve tried to throw the Trevor Bauer cutter and get some good movement on it while it also remains in the high 60s to 70mph, is this nessesary or will it not make a very big difference in swings and misses, thx will

I get tons of late cut when I grab Across the seams where they get narrow (two seamer). Middle finger pressure and just throw it. I was told that’s a natural cutter. Never gripped the off axis fourseamer spot like you described. It freaks people out during catch if I don’t warn them. Is that not a true cutter?

Are there any negative effects on the arm or elbow? I imagine no because it’s the same release as a fastball?

Hey Dan, I’m a 12 year old and I’m trying to learn a pitch that can move a bit without hurting my arm. Circle changes hurt my elbow if I turn my hand towards the ground. Got any suggestions for pitches I could learn?

How should a player with small hands hold the grip??? My hands are small, so there are a lot of inconveniences when I play baseball...

Would throwing this in live ab's work instead of throwing it in a game right away until I get used to it and see if it works

7:27 What about someone like corbin burnes who uses it as his primary pitch? He's an exception to the rule but still

I understand cutter is to offset fingers right, so the ball break left. But why can't pitcher offset fingers to left, so the ball break right like a sinker? I mean, sinker is usually thrown as 2-seamer, the grip is entirely different from the offset-4-seamer-cutter. Can a pitcher throw cutter as reverse-offset-2-seamer or throw sinker as reverse-offset-4-seamer?

What do you mean it won’t break in practice even if it’s thrown correctly? But it will in a game?

The pitching coordinator of the travel organization I coach for is all about teaching a "cutter" to kids of all ages even before the curve ball. They all end up throwing a little league slider. He's a good, coach better human just goes to show how pervasive mis-information is in our game.

My question is if we need to learn any other pitches, because you are always saying that we will only need three, a fastball, a change up, and a curveball, which excludes a lot of pitches

I clicked on this video thinking I would see a cutter pitch. For anyone watching this video, their is zero pitches of any kind in this video. Perhaps it is time to find some juggling videos that never shows a person juggling.

So, a 2 inch break on a cutter becomes a slider? Just asking. Fairly new to baseball. Just play MLB road to the show.