2001 Field Study featuring American Legion Pitchers
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These statistics best quantify what the professional skills presented in each How To Play brochure does for a player/coach, no matter the sport!!!

The Study: 

A How To Play coach was given the chance to work with High School pitchers during the 2001 American Legion Baseball Season… the coach made a concerted effort to use only skills presented in the "How To Play Better Baseball" Series.

Legend:
 How To Play coached pitchers… combined ERA 2.17    Best in Class for the Regular Season    Better than the Team Average 

  Tony F. Chris L. Jeff B. Matt B. Ken A. Steve J. Frank A. Steve K. Chris R. Team
Innings 40 1/3 32 1 12 27 22 26 /23 40 1 201
Total Pitches 660 650 33 192 386 403 494 574 28 3392
Strike % 62% 56% 52% 63% 62% 57% 55% 61% 39% 59%
First Pitch Strike 54% 52% 33% 58% 60% 60% 51% 49% 17% 54%
Faced 3 Batters/Inning % 30% 35% 0% 33% 41% 36% 23% 48% 0% 36%
Batting Average Against .210 .275 .000 .226 .225 .235 .181 .213 .000 .223
ERA 1.91 5.47 7.00 1.17 2.07 2.86 4.20 1.05 14.00 2.72
Pitches/Inning 16 20 33 16 14 18 19 14 28 17
Pitches/Batter 4 4 6 3 3 4 4 4 5 4
K to BB Ratio (X:1) 2.11 1.28 0.50 2.50 0.77 1.23 0.96 2.25 0.33 1.42
Categories over Team Average 6 0 1 6 6 3 1 7 1 8
                     
% Fastballs for Strikes 62 59 55 69 64 59 55 64 42 61
% Other Pitches for Strikes 65 37 0 49 50 44 56 54 25 53
Batters 182 162 6 57 113 112 131 160 6 923
Balls 254 286 16 72 148 172 224 223 17 1395
Strikes 406 364 17 120 238 231 270 351 11 1997
1st Pitch Strike 98 84 2 33 68 67 67 79 1 498
BB 19 25 2 4 13 13 25 12 3 113
K's 40 32 1 10 10 16 21 27 1 160
HBP 3 2 0 0 1 4 6 5 0 21
Single 26 34 0 11 19 21 13 27 0 151
Double 7 6 0 0 4 2 7 3 0 29
Triple 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 4
Home Run 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 4
Ground Balls 60 32 2 19 43 33 34 57 2 280
Fly Balls 28 23 0 13 27 22 23 29 0 165
Double Plays 3 7 1 0 6 0 5 7 0 29
Error 11 9 1 7 8 7 6 6 0 55
Earned Runs 11 25 1 2 8 9 16 6 2 78
Faced Only Three Batters 12 11 0 4 11 8 6 19 0 71
Wins 5 5 0 4 7 7 4 3 0 26
Loses 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 5
Saves 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2

Related Pitching Links:        HowToPlay.com's "PinPoint Pitching Instruction" for Pitchers        Effective Pitching Mechanics

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