Take away the catcher, take off your glove, grab a plyo ball, head to the nearest brick wall, and you’ve got one of the best ways to increase speed and work on mechanics So often, young pitchers worry so much about balls and strikes that they completely change mechanics when the catcher steps in They slow down, shorten their stride, start pushing and guiding the ball to the target to try and hit the strike zone without realizing that this will make everything worse When I see this, I remove the