The funny thing is that when batters see this pitch it makes them want to crush. Unless you are an amazing batter and you try to crush the knuckler, you will screw up and miss the pitch every single time.
Try throwing a tennis ball at night with any grip and the ball always reacts like a knuckler …It’s always fun to see what type of break the ball makes …but for some reason the tennis ball doesn’t have a nasty break during the day , but at night …oh baby it breaks nasty as fuck
you probably play house league. Im 14 as well (almost 15) I play AAA ball and ive come kind of close to a no-hitter before but ive never suceeded in getting one. I am a strike out pitcher, i try to strike people out more then let my infield do alot of work. Ive been working on the knuckle ball lately actually trying to get good at it but my main three pitches are now my 4s fb, 2s fb and my cutter. But if i were to go to House L i would get no-hitters like mad. You have not learned this in 1mnth
Sure thing lol. And the only way Dickey is even considered this year is if he continues to pitch this way for the rest of the year. Keep in mind that we aren't even half way through the year. And if strikeouts mean a "fuckton" more than wins, explain Greg Maddux. A future Hall of Fame pitcher who won four straight Cy Young awards without breaking 200 strikeouts in any of those seasons.
The fact of the matter here is that Dickey will never be as good as Wakefield. This is only Dickey's 2nd 10+ win season compared to Wakefield's 11 10+ win seasons. It's a good thing that Dickey is finally coming around when he's 36 years old. Wakefield was great ever since he first joined the league at 25.
Strikeouts don't really mean a whole lot lol. There is a handful of pitchers with a better ERA and two with a better or equal WHIP, Matt Cain being higher than Dickey in both of those categories.
@jeremiahskye10 knucklers arent really mainstream pitchers. very rare to see a team with a knuckler. and lets be honest, knuckleballs arent exactly the most accurate pitches. hard to throw one for a strike when it counts.
That's nice movemont☆When i throw knuckleball. no matter what i grip the ball. it always spin like a slider....can you teach me how to throw like you?? I really hope to throw knuckleball..~
Dickey was most dominant this season during a stretch of interleague games. His two one-hit shutouts were against the Orioles and Rays, AL teams, which play in arguably the best division in the MLB. His mechanics are awkward? Are you kidding me? Can't you just admit that Dickey throws a better knuckleball? Who cares if he was a "nobody until recently?" His ceiling is far higher than Wakefield's ever was.
If you want to ignore the results, then fine. Dickey can throw a knuckleball as slow as 59mph to as fast as 82mph. Wakefield consistently posted season ERAs that approached 5, some greater than 5. Dickey's season ERA since 2010 has never been higher than 3.28. Dickey can also pitch more innings than Wakefield. Dickey's WHIP is lower as well. He strikes out more batters, walks less, and has pitched more complete games. Wakefield may have had a more typical knuckleball, but he never went 15-4.
@gojaysgorush Niekro probably gripped it a number of different ways. Many pitchers grip their pitches differently depending on the count. That's how Mo has always been so effective changing speeds and break with the same basic pitch. The importance of different grips of the same pitch on the ball is terribly undermined by some pitching coaches.
any knuckleball is dirty when you're 12, but since you can already throw it, it should be really good when you get older...I knew a guy that could throw a perfect knuckle about 200 feet when we were 12, but he stopped throwing it for awhile and can't really throw it anymore.
You are delusional. No use arguing with somebody who can't give credit to one of the best pitchers in baseball today and somebody who has the potential to be the greatest knuckleballer of all time.
hey ive go a question.ive just started throwing a knuckelballbut I hold it on the 2-seam laces. just wondering why people throw it off the laces instead of into of them?
The first time i struck out the side was with the knuckler for the strikeout pitch... I can throw the knuckleball, an off speed pitch, and a 71 mph fastball
@LongBoardingSC its harder too.. hahah you can learn how to throw a knuckleball in a few days if you watch somebody who throws it well.. its hard as hell to catch it haha
But there have been years where pitchers had similar ERA, less wins and more strikeouts than Maddux while finishing lower in the Cy Young race. Wins > Strikeouts
You want a "flat" surface (meaning off the seams) when gripping the ball so you can release both fingers at the same time. If you throw a knuckleball off the seams, the stitching of the seams can disrupt the timing of when each finger is off the ball.
first learn English second not true because the knuckleball is so random and unpredictable a batter can never predict where it will be... neither can the pitcher. hitting a knuckleball is all luck
Believe it or not, once you hit 13 and higher and play for higher level teams the knuckleball becomes a normal pitch seen by at least 2-3 pitchers a season, I am 13 myself and can throw and ok knuckleball around 50-55mph, but other pitchers i have batted against have thrown knuckleballs with no spin around 60-65mph
I used to have a nasty knuckleball when I was a kid. I got an umpire laughing at a batter one time. I'm starting to throw once again, so I'm hoping to be able to get my pitching ability back some. Thanks for the video.
You don't really get to 'decide where it goes' it decides where it goes. It's called 'Drag Crisis' with how air travels over the surface and gets disrupted.
its simple... kinda... you have to push it off your hands. if you do it too hard it has up spin, to soft it has down spin. that's why it takes years to master
am i the only 13 year old here that understands the concept that a knuckleball takes YEARS to actually control, throw for strikes, and actually be able to throw it in a game?
