Argument For Fastball

I decided to do my research paper on how is it possible to hit a 100 mph fastball without being able to see it for more than a split second, how do you break the fear of the baseball and, how to regain lost focus while they are hitting and pitching, “Baseball is 90 percent mental; the other half is physical.” Long time ago, as Yogi Berra who was a famous baseball player said this. It is no doubt that major league baseball player have skills to their physical abilities and it is obvious that they are better than any of us, but these abilities don’t come from their above-average physical ability. The year of 2002, Arizona State’s Gob Gray who has invented “virtual hitting stimulation” which is a strategy (practice) for baseball batters to…show more content…
The way to break that is to improve your mental mechanics and physical mechanics: Taking grounders without glove help kids focus on mechanical cues and then your fear of getting hurt is nowhere near their minds. Your mental needs to be stable, however, your mind needs to be thinking, “I am not scared” to release your fear so you wont panic when a harder grounder comes to you. Some player will take longer to change than the other.
Hitting and pitching are two distinct roles and I am interesting in how to regain your lost focus while they are hitting and pitching. However, batters and pitchers must know what to focus on the situation, the count of strikes and balls, and other various things. What gets a batter into a slump is when he is losing focuses and falling into the distraction and batters should recognize that when they are focusing on the wrong things quickly. For a pitcher, how good the hitter is, how bad the umpire is, the previous pitch, etc. A pitcher must be taught to recognize when they are focusing on the things they cannot control; wrong things. It would have an adverse affect on their performance. (sports psychology coaching…show more content…
He has noticed that the mental game of baseball helps him to realize this fundamental
He stated, “Mental rehearsal is something pitcher and batter could use to enhance their brainwork”. What you can do is watch some movies and mentally rehearse of what you will be doing in competition. You can plan for problems or map out your strategy and see yourself winning before you actually do it. The mental game of baseball can help you do that in a big way.

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