Robert Stock

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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.

app.stockyardbaseball.com Joined February 2012

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Robert Stock @RobertStock6 Oct 13

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 stockyardbaseball.com

stockyardbaseball.com Stockyard Baseball Co. Instructional videos and offseason pitching coaching with Robert Stock.

Robert Stock @RobertStock6 2h

Pioneering 2027 free agency with my split contract, lol.

woli @WoliSuitOfArmor 2h

@RobertStock6 you are a pioneer
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Robert Stock @RobertStock6 3d

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 3d

This is a great theoretical because it’s impossible to know and only the metrics are available (in the big leagues). It’s understand the value of metrics or nothing at all.

College Baseball Fan @collegebblfan81 3d

@RobertStock6 Serious question, do you think hitters would have an advantage actually watching you pre-game, watching your warm up pitches? Or just looking at your metrics on paper and getting in the box?
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Robert Stock @RobertStock6 3d

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 Verified account @JoshChambers 3d

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.”

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