Posted by: S. Procito () on Mon Aug 26 07:13:35 2002

I am thinking about purchasing a good pitching machine for my 13 year old son, Wes.
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> He is in the baseball camp run by John Elliot this week and just told me how much he learned when your methods were taught today at camp . I am very impressed - especially because Wes has already received training form some pretty good Major League trainers.
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> Can you recommend a good pitching machine? Or do you feel the products you sell here are sufficient?
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> Thanks very much from the dad of a 13 year-old who just loves this game and wants to play for the Dodgers when he's older!!

Larry,

Do not buy a pitching machin!!! They will hurt, not help, your sons ability to hit. The macine pitches the ball to the same place and at the same speed. What good can this do?

I have not seen one good hitter who uses a pitching machine as their way of practicing. But I have seen many, many poor ones. If you buy one your boy will be useing it all the time and think he can hit. But you will see that in a game he won't.

Read the post above by Frank Jessup about "fear of the ball" or something like that titel. He makes some very good points about pitching mcahines.

There is an element of live pitching that will never happen with a machine.
S. Procito