What pitches should I develop?

[Dev518]

I can throw these pitches with some success
4-seam fastball,good
2-seam fastball,ok
cut fastball,good
sinker,bad
Splitter,ok
knuckle curve,very good
eephus, this one really varies
circle change bad
slider ok-good
curve, ok

I wish I could develop all of this pitches but it would be close to impossible to do that and have them all be good especially because I throw from 4 arm angles. So I'd like to limit this to 4-6 pitches. What do you recomend?

[YankeeFan01]

I'd say all you really need are.
1. A fastball
2. A slider/cutter/curve (Maybe 2 of these)
3. A change

[EdmondsFan#1]

I can throw these pitches with some success
4-seam fastball,good
2-seam fastball,ok
cut fastball,good
sinker,bad
Splitter,ok
knuckle curve,very good
eephus, this one really varies
circle change bad
slider ok-good
curve, ok

I wish I could develop all of this pitches but it would be close to impossible to do that and have them all be good especially because I throw from 4 arm angles. So I'd like to limit this to 4-6 pitches. What do you recomend?

depends how hard you throw imo.

I would keep the 4-seam fastball, Knuckle Curve, Circle-change (perfect this one), and the Splitter.

Since your better with a 4-seam then a 2-seam i would keep the 4-seam for a fastball, because i think every pitcher should have a fastball. Knuckle Curve for a curveball, because a breaking pitch can do good things, Circle-Change i reccomend you should perfect; this combined with the fastball is the pitcher's best weapon, and splitter because you could use it for a ground-out pitch.

Edit: But if you could just spend time on all of these and hopefully perfect all of them with the same arm slot and delivery you would be one evil s.o.b.

[candy curveball cummings]

depends how hard you throw imo.

I would keep the 4-seam fastball, Knuckle Curve, Circle-change (perfect this one), and the Splitter.

Since your better with a 4-seam then a 2-seam i would keep the 4-seam for a fastball, because i think every pitcher should have a fastball. Knuckle Curve for a curveball, because a breaking pitch can do good things, Circle-Change i reccomend you should perfect; this combined with the fastball is the pitcher's best weapon, and splitter because you could use it for a ground-out pitch.

Edit: But if you could just spend time on all of these and hopefully perfect all of them with the same arm slot and delivery you would be one evil s.o.b.

I agree with all of this, especially the Circle-change. If you developed everything above, you'd be one heck of a pitcher.

[JLeicester]

depends how hard you throw imo.

I would keep the 4-seam fastball, Knuckle Curve, Circle-change (perfect this one), and the Splitter.

Since your better with a 4-seam then a 2-seam i would keep the 4-seam for a fastball, because i think every pitcher should have a fastball. Knuckle Curve for a curveball, because a breaking pitch can do good things, Circle-Change i reccomend you should perfect; this combined with the fastball is the pitcher's best weapon, and splitter because you could use it for a ground-out pitch.

Edit: But if you could just spend time on all of these and hopefully perfect all of them with the same arm slot and delivery you would be one evil s.o.b.

I like all of this, but with a few things to keep in mind. You're forgetting about the most important aspect of each pitch. Just like they say in Real Estate, 'location, location, location'.
Learning all the pitches in the world won't get you nearly as far as learning to throw your Four-Seam fastball low & away, FOR STRIKES (to both righties and leftys). Then learning to throw a good breaking pitch(for righthanded hitters) and a off-speed pitch(for Leftys) off it.
I'd suggest the Slider as your breaking ball, because its thrown just like the fastball with an off-center grip, and the change-up or split for your off-speed pitch.
And Keep working on the two-seam. it can get you ground balls in those tough 2-0, 3-0, 3-1 counts.
thats really all you need at anything below Double-A baseball.
Learn to command three great pitches rather than 8 so-so ones.

[EdmondsFan#1]

Well the location part should have been obvious. That's what i meant when i said perfect them.


Yeah, you should really only have 3 pitches are so though, some majors only have 2 which is fastball, changeup. Or fastball, curveball, etc.

My main pitches are 4-seam, changeup, and some freaky movement pitch that i have no idea what is considered as. Sometimes it comes in and rises but other times it's more like a curve. How i grip it is grip the ball like a 2-seamer then slide my right finger over and move them up to where the ball looks like a horseshoe (but only half way) and turn them slightly diagnol. I'm a leftie, so everything i said would be opposite if you were a rightie and you should move your left finger instead of right.