Luke Collard

Husband, Father, Coach, Small Business Owner

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Baseball Doesn’t Need More Data Readers It Needs Pitching Coaches

If professional baseball truly vetted the people being hired as pitching coaches, a lot of jobs would disappear overnight.

Because what’s happening right now isn’t coaching.
It’s data reading.

Somewhere along the way, the game decided that if you can interpret ball-flight charts and recite spin efficiency, you’re qualified to stand on a big-league mound and teach pitchers how to get outs. That’s not development. That’s outsourcing responsibility to numbers.

Let’s be clear about something: data matters.
But data is not coaching.

You can teach a real pitching coach how to use data. Good coaches want to learn it. They’ll study it, question it, challenge it, and then filter it through feel, execution, and competition.

What you can’t teach is how to pitch.

And that’s the problem.

The Game Has Replaced Pitching Coaches With Throwing Coaches

Talk to professional coaches around the league guys who have actually stood on the mound, competed, failed, adjusted, and survived and you’ll hear the same thing over and over:

Many of the new pitching hires have never pitched at a professional level and have no idea how to actually get hitters out.

So what do they default to?

“Throw it down the middle and see what happens.”
“Trust the data.”
“Velocity plays.”

That’s not pitching. That’s gambling.

Pitching is a competitive skill built on execution, sequencing, movement, deception, and decision-making under pressure. It’s understanding how hitters adjust, how counts matter, how adrenaline changes mechanics, and how to get through an inning when you don’t have your best stuff.

Those lessons don’t show up on a dashboard.

Ball Flight Without Execution Means Nothing

Ball flight data without execution is useless.

Velocity without command is meaningless.

Spin rate without intent is noise.

A pitcher doesn’t get paid for having elite metrics in a bullpen. He gets paid for outs. And outs come from being able to repeat a delivery, control the baseball, adjust in real time, and compete when the game tightens.

Right now, too many organizations are creating glorified throwers, not pitchers.

Guys who can light up a Rapsodo in shorts.
Guys who look incredible in controlled environments.
Guys who fall apart when hitters stop chasing and the game speeds up.

That’s a coaching failure.

Coaching Is Not Explaining It’s Teaching

The best pitching coaches in the game don’t drown players in information. They simplify. They prioritize. They understand who the pitcher is, not who the data wants him to be.

They know:
When to push and when to shut up
When data helps and when it hurts
When feel beats force
When execution beats intent

They don’t sell pitchers on magic numbers.
They teach them how to own the mound.

And here’s the part that matters most: real coaches aren’t impressed by bullshit.

Professional players can smell it instantly. If you’ve never had to get outs with a tired arm, a bad feel day, or a runner on third and one out, your credibility is gone before you open your mouth.

Get Outs

Baseball is not a lab experiment.
It’s a competitive game of outs.

The industry doesn’t need more self-proclaimed “throwing coaches” who hide behind screens and spreadsheets. It needs pitching coaches people who understand the craft, respect the chaos, and can blend data with reality.

Data should inform decisions.
Execution should decide games.

Until professional baseball gets back to hiring coaches who can actually teach pitching, not just explain it, the game will keep producing arms that look great on paper and disappear when it matters.

And that’s not development.
That’s failure dressed up as innovation.

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In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.

Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.

His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.

The leukemia was incurable.

No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.

Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.

Teddy died at the age of 9.

Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.

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Munger on Self-Pity:

"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.

Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…

Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.

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There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."