Robert Stock

Amateur film critic, fanatical book reader, WoW/LoL tryhard. Pitcher every 5 days or so. If you came to complain about gambling get rekt bro.

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

I want to help young players get better at pitching. I've spent the last 30 years continually improving at the craft in a way I think is exceptionally unique. While 99% of pitchers train in the exact same way with the same cues and drills, I've found a completely different, often antithetical approach has worked for me. I think it will help others too.

This offseason I'm offering a one-on-one remote coaching service, as well as continuing to make more YouTube videos explaining the concepts I believe are fundamental to MLB pitchers.

Check out the website at https://t.co/SYzqxPl5hJ

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

Throwing fast is EXTREMELY important for a pitcher. All your stuff plays better and you're likely feeling unencumbered by health concerns. These are the pitchers in the last 12 seasons who are the most susceptible to velocity changes.

https://t.co/Q2n36yUpxJ

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@PTPitching It changes HAA/VAA as well

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

Pioneering 2027 free agency with my split contract, lol.

[woli @WoliSuitOfArmor]

@RobertStock6 you are a pioneer

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@tangotiger When can we get the pitcher equivalent of "stance" data?

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@tangotiger Yea I just know how the rules apply to me, haha. Not what the intentions of the rule-writers are.

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@Zeke_mets As extreme of a release point as possible

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

Remember when it was a big news item that Derek Jeter employed a guy to sit behind home plate and report radar gun readings so Jeter wouldn't have to rely on incorrect scoreboard velocities? This was cutting edge metrics for the time.

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@Jakersfield2022 @DMEASrecruiting Tell you why you have your own opinion? Lol

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

What’s interesting is he’s describing things that are all quantified by data, but it seems he preferred when it was hazy and you could say your feelings aloud and never get fact checked. Now you can form all sorts of theories about the game, and actually verify if they’re true.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Mike Piazza says baseball has become so obsessed with analytics and data that people have stopped actually watching the game

“Well, and I think you would attest to this, right? For me, when I was managing and guys would come in after a pitcher was being taken out or changed, and they would come in and look and say, ‘Well, what’s he throw?’ I’m like, ‘Dude, just watch him.’ You know, watch the guy throw.”

“When I was in Dodger Stadium, I would come out before I warmed up, I would sit on the bench, and the visiting bullpen was right out in right field. Whoever was pitching, I would just sit there for five minutes, watch the slider, watch the changeup. And I could see, and you learn a lot by watching. And I think we’ve computed the game so much into data that nobody watches the game.”

“And as a catcher, you know this, right? If a guy’s hot, if he’s not, if he’s chasing, all these things you have to have right here. I mean, I would watch if a guy’s crowding the plate, I know he likes the ball in. If he’s away, I know he likes the ball away.”

“It’s just certain little tells as a catcher that you watch. I was watching the game the other day, a guy had a good fastball, he blows two by the guy, the guy fouls one off, he’s tardy. What does he do? He throws a slider, off-speed, and the guy gets a base hit.”

“I’m like, the guy is telling you that he can’t catch up to the fastball. Now, I’m not saying you can’t throw off-speed, but you can’t throw it in the zone where the guy can get the bat on it. And then you go back and try to blow him away. So yeah, this organic sort of evolution of the game, the spontaneity is gone.”

“Everything is just super, super data-computerized. And it’s a little sterile to me, it’s a little austere. But who am I? It’s just my opinion.”

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@thetuse @DMEASrecruiting I’m trying to understand your opinion! Which is based on almost nothing at all, according to how you learn about modern baseball.

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@thetuse @DMEASrecruiting So the answer to the question is no, you don’t learn about the game from outside of watching it, and you also barely watch it?

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@DMEASrecruiting If they’re so obvious they should hold up under analysis, so why does anyone think analyzing things (analytics) are bad?

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@thetuse @DMEASrecruiting You barely watch the game. Do you get information elsewhere about the game or are you equally uninformed?

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@NoMoreWilpons I said the things Piazza is talking about can be quantified. And you think I’m saying watching the game isn’t important?

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@NoMoreWilpons You believe analytics tells you things will happen with 100% certainty?

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@BluePinestripes I’d love to see the example of that!

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@CarlosVoltron They don’t preclude each other!

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@NoMoreWilpons Can you summarize for me what you think I’m dismissing?

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@Cmkansteiner @ChuckEWeiss You certainly have to know which numbers are actionable

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@joe4deadcat He was amazing!

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

@grace_prudent @drchrisahmad Am I correct in seeing that this doesn’t control for height or velocity?