September 27, 2025 • 20 mins
This one’s personal. I’m breaking down my own throwback mechanics from my pro ball career and the mistakes that cost me years of development.
👉 Watch the full YouTube breakdown (with throwback clips of my mechanics throughout the years): https://link.mcpay.io/BHHdnjt
From being drafted in 2010… to getting released in 2014… to reinventing myself in the bullpen… I learned the hard way that:
• Velocity is a choice — you throw hard by training to throw hard
• Your environment dictates how your body organizes
• Athleticism is more important than robotic mechanics
• The mental approach you take into every throw will shape your movements
• Skipping the adaptation phase is what leads to injury
If you’re a pitcher who’s struggling with mechanics, command, or velocity… this episode is going to hit home. My journey had a lot of failures, but now I use those lessons to help guys like YOU avoid the same mistakes.
👉 Watch the full YouTube breakdown (with throwback clips of my mechanics through the years):
https://link.mcpay.io/BHHdnjt
What you’re thinking impacts the way your body is going to move in an effort to complete the task at hand.. something I learned the HARD WAY and I know a lot of us ball players struggle with..
For me I struggled sooo hard trying to get the ball to move and NOT THROW BALLS that I forgot my body is the most adaptable thing on this planet n it knows how to get the job done IF I’d just get out of my own frickin way lol
That’s why I’m such an advocate for training in environments that DEMAND athleticism/freedom/power and FLOWWW 🌊
Want to throw hard - Throw HARD
Think aggressive - be aggressive
Think passive - be passive
Simplicity is the gateway to athleticism
When I finally found my groove in 2015 I realized I could literally think “throw it as hard as I frickin can” and it’d actually go where I wanted it to go because I was just FLOWING bruh.. I also intentionally trained my body to adapt to the movements of high velocity demands in my preparation (long toss, pulldowns, and high intent catch plays)
👉 Want to work with me directly? https://therobbyrowshow.com/coaching/
👉 Have a question for me? https://therobbyrowshow.com/ask/
Resources & Links
A Complete Guide To Pitching Mechanics eBook → https://therobbyrowshow.com/product/mechanics-ebook/
Discounts on Products I Use → https://therobbyrowshow.com/productdiscounts/
My Content Equipment Setup → https://therobbyrowshow.com/content-creation/
Development eBooks → https://therobbyrowshow.com/ebooks/
👉 Watch the full YouTube breakdown (with throwback clips of my mechanics throughout the years): https://link.mcpay.io/BHHdnjt
From being drafted in 2010… to getting released in 2014… to reinventing myself in the bullpen… I learned the hard way that:
• Velocity is a choice — you throw hard by training to throw hard
• Your environment dictates how your body organizes
• Athleticism is more important than robotic mechanics
• The mental approach you take into every throw will shape your movements
• Skipping the adaptation phase is what leads to injury
If you’re a pitcher who’s struggling with mechanics, command, or velocity… this episode is going to hit home. My journey had a lot of failures, but now I use those lessons to help guys like YOU avoid the same mistakes.
👉 Watch the full YouTube breakdown (with throwback clips of my mechanics through the years):
https://link.mcpay.io/BHHdnjt
What you’re thinking impacts the way your body is going to move in an effort to complete the task at hand.. something I learned the HARD WAY and I know a lot of us ball players struggle with..
For me I struggled sooo hard trying to get the ball to move and NOT THROW BALLS that I forgot my body is the most adaptable thing on this planet n it knows how to get the job done IF I’d just get out of my own frickin way lol
That’s why I’m such an advocate for training in environments that DEMAND athleticism/freedom/power and FLOWWW 🌊
Want to throw hard - Throw HARD
Think aggressive - be aggressive
Think passive - be passive
Simplicity is the gateway to athleticism
When I finally found my groove in 2015 I realized I could literally think “throw it as hard as I frickin can” and it’d actually go where I wanted it to go because I was just FLOWING bruh.. I also intentionally trained my body to adapt to the movements of high velocity demands in my preparation (long toss, pulldowns, and high intent catch plays)
👉 Want to work with me directly? https://therobbyrowshow.com/coaching/
👉 Have a question for me? https://therobbyrowshow.com/ask/
Resources & Links
A Complete Guide To Pitching Mechanics eBook → https://therobbyrowshow.com/product/mechanics-ebook/
Discounts on Products I Use → https://therobbyrowshow.com/productdiscounts/
My Content Equipment Setup → https://therobbyrowshow.com/content-creation/
Development eBooks → https://therobbyrowshow.com/ebooks/
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I struggled with the yips. I struggled with my freaking
mental headcase, dude. And as I started struggling with that,
it was never about power output. It was like, I
got to command the ball right, so the power output
I da mentally got thrown out the window. And like
now I'm sitting there grinding because I'm like trying to
throw strikes and it's like, oh my gosh, look at
my body, look at my movements. It's disgusting, you know,
(00:21):
But like that's the byproduct of literally just mentally stressing
command and not mentally stressing power.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Here listening to.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh my gosh, dude, We're back. It hasn't been over
a year since I've done a podcast. Yikes, Hey guys,
it's your host, Robbie Roe, not Robbie Rey. Hey. Uh
So I sat down and recorded a TBT and it
was pretty good. I get real passionate when I talk
about my journey because there's a lot that I freaking
sucked at. I failed a lot, And the entire reason
(01:07):
why I started the brand in which you'll hear about
in the episode is because I feel like it's my
responsibility to give you guys, right what I've learned and
what I sucked at, so hopefully you don't have to
suck at it as well. So today we are going
to be talking about my journey when it comes to velocity,
(01:29):
the mental side of things, talking about my experience with
the yip, but more importantly, like this overarching theme that
as I've grown older now I could see in those
younger years of my professional journey again, I got drafted eighteen, right,
So those younger years of just not prioritizing power output, right,
(01:52):
like how power output and prioritizing that for me mentally
was a that influenced the way that my body moved
and organized to give me power output, you know what
I mean. So when it comes to velocity, that's why
I'm so passionate about the environment you train in, the
(02:12):
stimulus you give your body every single day, like the
things you're doing every single day, because I believe that
the body will adapt to anything, but it definitely adapts
to your stimulus each and every day from a training standpoint,
And it's like, gosh, dude, so frustrating because I look
back at those younger years and even happened again in
twenty twenty two, which I don't even talk about in
(02:34):
the in the actual segment. But it happened again when
I became a starting pitcher in New York because it
was like I was just prioritizing volume, like I wanted
to throw nine innings every game. So like that mental
intent let me organize, Like my body was organizing now
in a way not to throw hard, just more so
(02:56):
to just you know, throw high volume. So this this
stuff is true, dude, Like this this stuff happens. So
be intentional, be diligent with your process. And I promise
you if you're somebody that's seeking velocity, dude, like if
you can check these particular boxes that we're going to
be talking about in this episode, like you're gonna set
yourself up to have success. I thoroughly believe, Like I mean,
(03:19):
if you look at any point in my career where
I was like, oh, I'm just gonna throw hard, like
I went and through hard, which again is so frustrating
looking back at it, because if you're following my journey,
like I'm not currently playing right now, and I want
to do another episode now that the podcast is officially resumed,
I want to do another episode about that where I'm
(03:41):
at currently in my journey, but you know, hey, we're
back it. Gosh it, it's so hard for me for
some reason managing everything social media, brand clients, you know,
and and then the podcast is just like, well, like
this is this is a whole another layer to the
brand that it takes a lot of work and it's
kind of just not a priority. But you know, there's
(04:02):
a lot of people that reach out and say how
much they love it, so that alone it matters a lot.
It means a lot. So if you're somebody that's reached
out and said good things about my podcast, I appreciate you. Hey,
the MLB Playoffs is on the way, I'm freaking stoke, dude,
gosh dog, it fires me up watching MLB Playoffs. Good stuff.
(04:22):
I'm gonna do a lot of breakdowns for that. But yeah, man,
so without you know, getting too much into everything aside
from this particular episode, you know, if you've been watching
listening to the show, you know I can ramble a
little bit. But hey, last thing before we just listened
to the audio is the segments also on YouTube, which
includes like video highlights. I threw in like a lot
(04:45):
of video highlights because I found a hard drive of
like all my off seasons from twenty ten all the
way to like twenty eighteen. So I was like, frick, yeah, dude,
I'm gonna throw in a bunch of like old school,
you know, young Robbie row stuff, And if you want
to watch that, go ahead and go to my YouTube channel.
I'm almost to one hundred k s ups. So that's like,
big news, man, big news. If you love me, you'll
(05:08):
go sub if you haven't already. All right, let's get
to this episode. Dude. It's really good. I get again.
I know that I am not the only one in
the world that has struggled with this. But if there's
one thing you take from this, dude, is like, just
figure out if you're a ball player, words are hard
figure out, like what you got to think about to
be at your best? Right, Like, that's why I think
(05:29):
intent matters so much. The brain body connection is so
freaking intelligent. Like what your thinking matters in terms of
how your body is going to organize to complete that task. Dude.
So it's it's gosh, yeah, frustrating, but you know what
(05:49):
are you going to do? You live and you learn?
All right, much love guys, God bless and hope you
enjoy this reach out with any questions. The rabbirol show
dot com slash ask and remote coaching is now available
grabul show dot com slash coaching. Okay, let's get to
the episode. Love you bye. All right, guys, here we go. Okay,
Oh my gosh, it's so frustrating. It's Thursday. It's a
(06:10):
throwback Thursday. I love doing these because obviously, the reason
why I started my brand, for those of you guys
who do not know, was because I freaking failed a
lot in my journey. Dude, I failed a lot. I
learned a whole heck of a lot throughout that journey.
I just really struggled when it came to the application
of the things that I learned. So it was a mess.
(06:31):
But I've been wanting to do this for a while.
Found a hard drive with all of my minor league
videos from before twenty eighteen. I gotta say, dude, frickin'
a it's frustrating watching this. So when I was younger,
I used to think like pitching mechanics were basically like
kind of set in stone based off of like what
you were trying to do mentally, you know, like thinking
about your pitching mechanics was what was going to allow
(06:54):
you to have the specific pitching mechanics you have. This
is why I am so frickin passionate about out the
environment you put yourself in as a as a pitcher.
I know it sounds like bad advice, but for those
of you guys who ask, like, how do I throw harder?
You literally just throw harder, Like the body is a
byproduct of the movements that you give it and feed
(07:16):
it every single day. Case in point, dude, because like
twenty ten was the first year I got drafted, was
my first professional season. It was the first time I
was introduced to this concept of savior bullets, even though
I was still actually long tossing and like trying to
throw hard. That season was more about like the maintenance
and getting used to the five day pitching starting routine. Right.
(07:38):
There wasn't a huge emphasis on like velocity for me,
you know, like I already had thrown enough to get
me drafted eighty eighth overall, so now it was like
about the fine tuning, right, So it's in my mind
that I need to fine tune specific things like mechanics,
leverage and off speed pitches. How to sequence, how to
read hitters, all these other things. Right, twenty eleven comes
(07:59):
along same kind of concept. It was more about the curveball.
Now I'm really trying to develop a curveball. The velocity
stuff kind of goes out the back door, and dude,
fast forward all the way to the point in which
I'm literally getting released by Pittsburgh in twenty fourteen, where
I'm like, holy smokes, dude, I like literally haven't prioritized velocity.
It's tough to blame like specific organizations, but this is
(08:20):
why I'm so passionate about the things that you do
each and every day from a throwing standpoint. Again, not
everyone's going to be just like me. Not everyone's body
is going to be like me and how it responds
to the stimulus and the training. But holy smokes, it's
frustrating watching my video from like twenty thirteen, because looking
back twenty thirteen, I was in a pretty good spot. Dude.
I had my probably best statistic year in twenty twelve,
(08:43):
my first year with Pittsburgh being a sinkerball guy. You
know again, sinkerball command, Like, all these power output ideas
get thrown out the window, right, And so for me,
the power output idea of it was like my athleticism.
Oh that's why, like in twenty fifteen, granted I stopped
being a starting pitcher went to the bullpen, but the
(09:05):
idea of like, I'm just gonna throw it as hard
as I can, right and see what happens. Because I
got released in twenty fourteen and I needed to get
a job. The only way I was going to get
a job an affiliated ball was to throw hard. Like
that's just the reality of it. So then it was like, oh,
the demand for freakin' velocity was so high, and then
I just put myself in environments that, like the body
so adaptable, dude, it's crazy. That's why I like, dude,
(09:27):
to throw hard. You just gotta throw hard, right, So
take it for me again. Everyone's gonna be different, right,
Everyone's gonna be different in how their body organizes and everything.
But man, I promise you, dude, if you just set
yourself up with the right environments, with your training, you
develop just a good structured plan, like you will gain velocity.
That's why we're just seeing so many guys just throw
(09:49):
so hard now, is because like the secret's out right,
Like you gotta throw hard, so like people are now
just becoming a little bit more smart with how they
go about the task of throwing hard, Like if you're
an ass. That's why, like foundation of athleticism is so important.
Growing up with an athletic foundation, playing different sports, having
your body organized in different ways to complete different styles
(10:10):
of tasks, right, whether it be on the hardwood or
the freaking football soccer field like hacky sack, all these things.
You developed that athletic foundation. Dude, the body's equipped to
be able to adapt to anything. Man. So it's like
it's gonna know how to organize to produce power output.
You just gotta feed it that information. You gotta feed
it that task. For me early in my career, that's where,
(10:31):
like I hate to use the word regret. I really
disliked the word regret. But if I could adjust one
thing in my career, it's those early stages, man, Like
I still would have been mindful of throw hard, throw hard,
have the mental objective to throw hard, because you can
just see it, Dude. From the course of twenty ten
to twenty eleven, to twenty twelve to twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
(10:53):
like just continuously goes down because I struggled with the yips.
I struggled with my freaking mental head case, dude. And
as I started struggling with that, it was never about
power output. It was like I got to command the
ball right, so the power output idea mentally got thrown
out the window. And like now I'm sitting there grinding
because I'm like trying to throw strikes and it's like,
oh my gosh, look at my body, look at my movements.
(11:15):
It's disgusting, you know, But like that's the byproduct of
literally just mentally stressing command and not mentally stressing like
power right and athleticism. And then fast forward to twenty
fifteen was probably my best year from an overall, just
like I threw my hardest, I had the best stuff.
An argument could be made for winter Ball at twenty eighteen,
but anyways, like looking back at my career, like that
(11:38):
twenty fifteen season when I literally just finally identified what
did I need to think about right and just simplified everything.
Whereas like every time I went out it was just
like I want to see, like if I can throw
one mile an hour harder today? And what I learned
about myself was that when I had that mental objective
when I gave myself that task right in my head
(12:00):
about just like throwing hard and every single day long tossing,
my body adapted, my arm adapted, and my movements followed. Right.
So it's like that's the secret, you know. I think
there's always going to be a time and place for
like implementing drill progressions, implementing like throw variations and things.
But you know, at the end of the day, like
it's so hard to articulate mentally the specific movements that
(12:23):
you want to see when you throw a baseball. So
instead of doing that right, some people can, most people
probably can't, especially as pictures do. We gotta think less
man like if we just simplified the entire approach to
this development thing, Dude, it's just like identify what you
need to think to be at your best mentally. It's
no accident. Like, ew, dude, look at the way my
(12:45):
body is organizing when I'm throwing here versus when I'm
throwing a max peak power output long toss or peak
power output run and gun. Right, Like, the body just
organizes just drastically different. So that tells me, like, obviously
there's that fine line of doing too much right and
like and and blowing it out too much right in
(13:06):
your arm. But dude, if you go through an adaptation
period and you slowly build to where your body and
your arm and your mind can handle the workload, you're fine, right,
I promise you your body will adapt. I personally believe like
the injuries just come from just the kind of bypassing
the adaptation phase right and kind of rushing that. But dude,
(13:28):
I gotta I want to stand up and show you
this example. I got a camera rolling over there, mental issues,
struggling with the yips, right, Like, my body just goes, okay,
I need to like throw it there right, Not about
throwing it there hard or trying to throw it through
the catcher. It's just like I gotta throw it there
like right, as opposed to the thought process of like
(13:52):
I'm gonna throw it freaking through that guy, or I'm
gonna throw it over the fence, or I'm gonna throw
it through the net. Right like, brain body connection find
that peak flow in athleticism where this can just take
a back seat. The body knows how to instinctually respond
to the task. If you just do that.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
If you hammer the freaking repetitions over and over again.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I promise you your body will mold itself to throw that way.
If it understands that the pitching mechanic task is this
specific organization where it's violent and aggressive, then it's gonna
do that when you go to freaking leglis.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
But again, you know, freaking trying to throw it. I'm
trying to sing it, right, I'm trying to sing it,
trying to have a little freaking movement on my pit,
like all right, it's turn it over, turn it over,
turn it over.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All right. I gotta be quick to the plate. Gotta
be quick to the plate. Fall go rush. It's like, dude,
organize to where you're like, I'm gonna throw it through
that mother frigger. Dude. Guys from other countries, Dude, like
they're only you know, we're gonna get signed. Like they
throw freaking hard, so it's like their body just does
this real aggressive bird. Nah. You know, two scene, nothing
(15:12):
wrong with growing a two scene, but like still with
the mental intent of like I'm gonna I'm gonna get
after that two scene, right, same thing, guys trying to
change speeds early a little combia, right, turn it over, nah, dude,
like I'm still gonna stay rest. Shoot. Anyways, I get
(15:36):
passionate talking about that. I get really frustrated at myself too,
because my dad, freaking Pops literally set me up so good,
right growing up. He set me up so good, and
I freaking went andft it up right, Like, yeah, I
could sit here and blame like this organization didn't let
me long to us. This organization told me to save
(15:56):
my bullets, right, like my career, right, it's my arm.
Figure out what works for you, dude, and stick to
your guns. That's it, because at the end of the day,
you gotta live with yourself. So there's my throwback for
the day. Some freaking eighty pooh mechanics just looking trash.
(16:19):
Look at the drive leg dude, the drive legs just fallen,
not even existent arms. Just like what am I doing?
Torso and hips are going together, I create a little
bit of stretch, dude. But it's like I'm disconnected, you
know again. I went through big time mental issues in
twenty thirteen, and honestly, I couldn't locate a fastball to
(16:39):
save my life. So I started throwing a crap ton
of breaking balls because that was like the one thing
that I could throw for a strike because of the
low expectations. So I started throwing a crap ton of those,
but it was all about landing them, you know. So
I think my body just naturally started to organize in
a different way, the land breaking balls instead of like
I'm trying to throw fastballs, trying to throw cheddar gets
(17:00):
through the catcher's face mask. Right, Like, take one thing
from this, dude, your mind, Like what your thinking matters, dude,
And it matters when it comes to the way your
body organizes. Because if you're thinking too much about specific
mechanical movements, dude, you're probably gonna move like a robot.
I know from experience. Be athletics. Stay athletic. Simplicity is
(17:23):
the gateway to athleticism. Learn how much you can take
on mentally as you go, right, I try to take
on everything mentally and I couldn't you know that was
that was probably where I went wrong. Anyways, hopefully this helps, dude.
If you know someone that struggles mentally with their mechanics,
man send him this. Hey. But that's why I do it, dude,
(17:44):
That's why I do this thing. You know. I failed
a crap ton Throughout my journey, I learned a lot
I didn't apply, But now I have a purpose to
give back this information to you guys, so hopefully you
don't make the same mistakes. All right, you guys want
to see is seam shift split pay. It's appropriate that
I'm wearing this shirt too, right, Gosh, it's frustrating. Man.
(18:09):
In high school, high school, I'm trying to get drafted.
I'm trying to go as high as I possibly can.
So honestly, the mindset wasn't even like results based. I
was at a small school, like the results were going
to come naturally because I threw over ninety. But it
was like the mental task was throw as hard as
I freaking can because the harder I can throw, the
(18:31):
higher I'll go, and the more I'll get paid, you
know what I mean. So like simplification, there induced those
high school mechanics, which I still say are like so
fricking elite, you know, because I'm literally just throwing one
hundred and eighty pounds slinging it, and then you know,
I get drafted to go through pro ball, and it's
like just the mental kind of objective changed, and that changed.
(18:56):
My physical movements changed the way that I move, even
like I was putting on weight getting stronger and I
was throwing slower. So dude, the mental piece is so big.
Thoughts become things. How you think matters. One encouragement, biggest encouragement,
Think aggressive, And I know it's so easier said than done, dude,
(19:18):
but if you can think aggressive and you can stay
aggressive with your thoughts, then the body will be aggressive.
The body will follow suit. It starts in the mind
and then the body follows. So train this to be
in whatever state you personally have to be in to
be at your best, which goes into a whole separate
conversation of identification. But you figure that out, and then
(19:44):
you figure that out, you'll see results. All right, that
was fun. Much love guys. As always, if you have
any questions, reach out to me the Robby Roadshow dot
com slash ask take you to my question platform, and
if you want to work with me remotely, the Robby
Roadshow dot com slash coaching. All right, thanks guys, thanks
for listening to my rant. See here
I struggled with the yips. I struggled with my freaking
mental headcase, dude. And as I started struggling with that,
it was never about power output. It was like, I
got to command the ball right, so the power output
I da mentally got thrown out the window. And like
now I'm sitting there grinding because I'm like trying to
throw strikes and it's like, oh my gosh, look at
my body, look at my movements. It's disgusting, you know,
(00:21):
But like that's the byproduct of literally just mentally stressing
command and not mentally stressing power.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Here listening to.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh my gosh, dude, We're back. It hasn't been over
a year since I've done a podcast. Yikes, Hey guys,
it's your host, Robbie Roe, not Robbie Rey. Hey. Uh
So I sat down and recorded a TBT and it
was pretty good. I get real passionate when I talk
about my journey because there's a lot that I freaking
sucked at. I failed a lot, And the entire reason
(01:07):
why I started the brand in which you'll hear about
in the episode is because I feel like it's my
responsibility to give you guys, right what I've learned and
what I sucked at, so hopefully you don't have to
suck at it as well. So today we are going
to be talking about my journey when it comes to velocity,
(01:29):
the mental side of things, talking about my experience with
the yip, but more importantly, like this overarching theme that
as I've grown older now I could see in those
younger years of my professional journey again, I got drafted eighteen, right,
So those younger years of just not prioritizing power output, right,
(01:52):
like how power output and prioritizing that for me mentally
was a that influenced the way that my body moved
and organized to give me power output, you know what
I mean. So when it comes to velocity, that's why
I'm so passionate about the environment you train in, the
(02:12):
stimulus you give your body every single day, like the
things you're doing every single day, because I believe that
the body will adapt to anything, but it definitely adapts
to your stimulus each and every day from a training standpoint,
And it's like, gosh, dude, so frustrating because I look
back at those younger years and even happened again in
twenty twenty two, which I don't even talk about in
(02:34):
the in the actual segment. But it happened again when
I became a starting pitcher in New York because it
was like I was just prioritizing volume, like I wanted
to throw nine innings every game. So like that mental
intent let me organize, Like my body was organizing now
in a way not to throw hard, just more so
(02:56):
to just you know, throw high volume. So this this
stuff is true, dude, Like this this stuff happens. So
be intentional, be diligent with your process. And I promise
you if you're somebody that's seeking velocity, dude, like if
you can check these particular boxes that we're going to
be talking about in this episode, like you're gonna set
yourself up to have success. I thoroughly believe, Like I mean,
(03:19):
if you look at any point in my career where
I was like, oh, I'm just gonna throw hard, like
I went and through hard, which again is so frustrating
looking back at it, because if you're following my journey,
like I'm not currently playing right now, and I want
to do another episode now that the podcast is officially resumed,
I want to do another episode about that where I'm
(03:41):
at currently in my journey, but you know, hey, we're
back it. Gosh it, it's so hard for me for
some reason managing everything social media, brand clients, you know,
and and then the podcast is just like, well, like
this is this is a whole another layer to the
brand that it takes a lot of work and it's
kind of just not a priority. But you know, there's
(04:02):
a lot of people that reach out and say how
much they love it, so that alone it matters a lot.
It means a lot. So if you're somebody that's reached
out and said good things about my podcast, I appreciate you. Hey,
the MLB Playoffs is on the way, I'm freaking stoke, dude,
gosh dog, it fires me up watching MLB Playoffs. Good stuff.
(04:22):
I'm gonna do a lot of breakdowns for that. But yeah, man,
so without you know, getting too much into everything aside
from this particular episode, you know, if you've been watching
listening to the show, you know I can ramble a
little bit. But hey, last thing before we just listened
to the audio is the segments also on YouTube, which
includes like video highlights. I threw in like a lot
(04:45):
of video highlights because I found a hard drive of
like all my off seasons from twenty ten all the
way to like twenty eighteen. So I was like, frick, yeah, dude,
I'm gonna throw in a bunch of like old school,
you know, young Robbie row stuff, And if you want
to watch that, go ahead and go to my YouTube channel.
I'm almost to one hundred k s ups. So that's like,
big news, man, big news. If you love me, you'll
(05:08):
go sub if you haven't already. All right, let's get
to this episode. Dude. It's really good. I get again.
I know that I am not the only one in
the world that has struggled with this. But if there's
one thing you take from this, dude, is like, just
figure out if you're a ball player, words are hard
figure out, like what you got to think about to
be at your best? Right, Like, that's why I think
(05:29):
intent matters so much. The brain body connection is so
freaking intelligent. Like what your thinking matters in terms of
how your body is going to organize to complete that task. Dude.
So it's it's gosh, yeah, frustrating, but you know what
(05:49):
are you going to do? You live and you learn?
All right, much love guys, God bless and hope you
enjoy this reach out with any questions. The rabbirol show
dot com slash ask and remote coaching is now available
grabul show dot com slash coaching. Okay, let's get to
the episode. Love you bye. All right, guys, here we go. Okay,
Oh my gosh, it's so frustrating. It's Thursday. It's a
(06:10):
throwback Thursday. I love doing these because obviously, the reason
why I started my brand, for those of you guys
who do not know, was because I freaking failed a
lot in my journey. Dude, I failed a lot. I
learned a whole heck of a lot throughout that journey.
I just really struggled when it came to the application
of the things that I learned. So it was a mess.
(06:31):
But I've been wanting to do this for a while.
Found a hard drive with all of my minor league
videos from before twenty eighteen. I gotta say, dude, frickin'
a it's frustrating watching this. So when I was younger,
I used to think like pitching mechanics were basically like
kind of set in stone based off of like what
you were trying to do mentally, you know, like thinking
about your pitching mechanics was what was going to allow
(06:54):
you to have the specific pitching mechanics you have. This
is why I am so frickin passionate about out the
environment you put yourself in as a as a pitcher.
I know it sounds like bad advice, but for those
of you guys who ask, like, how do I throw harder?
You literally just throw harder, Like the body is a
byproduct of the movements that you give it and feed
(07:16):
it every single day. Case in point, dude, because like
twenty ten was the first year I got drafted, was
my first professional season. It was the first time I
was introduced to this concept of savior bullets, even though
I was still actually long tossing and like trying to
throw hard. That season was more about like the maintenance
and getting used to the five day pitching starting routine. Right.
(07:38):
There wasn't a huge emphasis on like velocity for me,
you know, like I already had thrown enough to get
me drafted eighty eighth overall, so now it was like
about the fine tuning, right, So it's in my mind
that I need to fine tune specific things like mechanics,
leverage and off speed pitches. How to sequence, how to
read hitters, all these other things. Right, twenty eleven comes
(07:59):
along same kind of concept. It was more about the curveball.
Now I'm really trying to develop a curveball. The velocity
stuff kind of goes out the back door, and dude,
fast forward all the way to the point in which
I'm literally getting released by Pittsburgh in twenty fourteen, where
I'm like, holy smokes, dude, I like literally haven't prioritized velocity.
It's tough to blame like specific organizations, but this is
(08:20):
why I'm so passionate about the things that you do
each and every day from a throwing standpoint. Again, not
everyone's going to be just like me. Not everyone's body
is going to be like me and how it responds
to the stimulus and the training. But holy smokes, it's
frustrating watching my video from like twenty thirteen, because looking
back twenty thirteen, I was in a pretty good spot. Dude.
I had my probably best statistic year in twenty twelve,
(08:43):
my first year with Pittsburgh being a sinkerball guy. You
know again, sinkerball command, Like, all these power output ideas
get thrown out the window, right, And so for me,
the power output idea of it was like my athleticism.
Oh that's why, like in twenty fifteen, granted I stopped
being a starting pitcher went to the bullpen, but the
(09:05):
idea of like, I'm just gonna throw it as hard
as I can, right and see what happens. Because I
got released in twenty fourteen and I needed to get
a job. The only way I was going to get
a job an affiliated ball was to throw hard. Like
that's just the reality of it. So then it was like, oh,
the demand for freakin' velocity was so high, and then
I just put myself in environments that, like the body
so adaptable, dude, it's crazy. That's why I like, dude,
(09:27):
to throw hard. You just gotta throw hard, right, So
take it for me again. Everyone's gonna be different, right,
Everyone's gonna be different in how their body organizes and everything.
But man, I promise you, dude, if you just set
yourself up with the right environments, with your training, you
develop just a good structured plan, like you will gain velocity.
That's why we're just seeing so many guys just throw
(09:49):
so hard now, is because like the secret's out right,
Like you gotta throw hard, so like people are now
just becoming a little bit more smart with how they
go about the task of throwing hard, Like if you're
an ass. That's why, like foundation of athleticism is so important.
Growing up with an athletic foundation, playing different sports, having
your body organized in different ways to complete different styles
(10:10):
of tasks, right, whether it be on the hardwood or
the freaking football soccer field like hacky sack, all these things.
You developed that athletic foundation. Dude, the body's equipped to
be able to adapt to anything. Man. So it's like
it's gonna know how to organize to produce power output.
You just gotta feed it that information. You gotta feed
it that task. For me early in my career, that's where,
(10:31):
like I hate to use the word regret. I really
disliked the word regret. But if I could adjust one
thing in my career, it's those early stages, man, Like
I still would have been mindful of throw hard, throw hard,
have the mental objective to throw hard, because you can
just see it, Dude. From the course of twenty ten
to twenty eleven, to twenty twelve to twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
(10:53):
like just continuously goes down because I struggled with the yips.
I struggled with my freaking mental head case, dude. And
as I started struggling with that, it was never about
power output. It was like I got to command the
ball right, so the power output idea mentally got thrown
out the window. And like now I'm sitting there grinding
because I'm like trying to throw strikes and it's like,
oh my gosh, look at my body, look at my movements.
(11:15):
It's disgusting, you know, But like that's the byproduct of
literally just mentally stressing command and not mentally stressing like
power right and athleticism. And then fast forward to twenty
fifteen was probably my best year from an overall, just
like I threw my hardest, I had the best stuff.
An argument could be made for winter Ball at twenty eighteen,
but anyways, like looking back at my career, like that
(11:38):
twenty fifteen season when I literally just finally identified what
did I need to think about right and just simplified everything.
Whereas like every time I went out it was just
like I want to see, like if I can throw
one mile an hour harder today? And what I learned
about myself was that when I had that mental objective
when I gave myself that task right in my head
(12:00):
about just like throwing hard and every single day long tossing,
my body adapted, my arm adapted, and my movements followed. Right.
So it's like that's the secret, you know. I think
there's always going to be a time and place for
like implementing drill progressions, implementing like throw variations and things.
But you know, at the end of the day, like
it's so hard to articulate mentally the specific movements that
(12:23):
you want to see when you throw a baseball. So
instead of doing that right, some people can, most people
probably can't, especially as pictures do. We gotta think less
man like if we just simplified the entire approach to
this development thing, Dude, it's just like identify what you
need to think to be at your best mentally. It's
no accident. Like, ew, dude, look at the way my
(12:45):
body is organizing when I'm throwing here versus when I'm
throwing a max peak power output long toss or peak
power output run and gun. Right, Like, the body just
organizes just drastically different. So that tells me, like, obviously
there's that fine line of doing too much right and
like and and blowing it out too much right in
(13:06):
your arm. But dude, if you go through an adaptation
period and you slowly build to where your body and
your arm and your mind can handle the workload, you're fine, right,
I promise you your body will adapt. I personally believe like
the injuries just come from just the kind of bypassing
the adaptation phase right and kind of rushing that. But dude,
(13:28):
I gotta I want to stand up and show you
this example. I got a camera rolling over there, mental issues,
struggling with the yips, right, Like, my body just goes, okay,
I need to like throw it there right, Not about
throwing it there hard or trying to throw it through
the catcher. It's just like I gotta throw it there
like right, as opposed to the thought process of like
(13:52):
I'm gonna throw it freaking through that guy, or I'm
gonna throw it over the fence, or I'm gonna throw
it through the net. Right like, brain body connection find
that peak flow in athleticism where this can just take
a back seat. The body knows how to instinctually respond
to the task. If you just do that.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
If you hammer the freaking repetitions over and over again.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I promise you your body will mold itself to throw that way.
If it understands that the pitching mechanic task is this
specific organization where it's violent and aggressive, then it's gonna
do that when you go to freaking leglis.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
But again, you know, freaking trying to throw it. I'm
trying to sing it, right, I'm trying to sing it,
trying to have a little freaking movement on my pit,
like all right, it's turn it over, turn it over,
turn it over.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All right. I gotta be quick to the plate. Gotta
be quick to the plate. Fall go rush. It's like, dude,
organize to where you're like, I'm gonna throw it through
that mother frigger. Dude. Guys from other countries, Dude, like
they're only you know, we're gonna get signed. Like they
throw freaking hard, so it's like their body just does
this real aggressive bird. Nah. You know, two scene, nothing
(15:12):
wrong with growing a two scene, but like still with
the mental intent of like I'm gonna I'm gonna get
after that two scene, right, same thing, guys trying to
change speeds early a little combia, right, turn it over, nah, dude,
like I'm still gonna stay rest. Shoot. Anyways, I get
(15:36):
passionate talking about that. I get really frustrated at myself too,
because my dad, freaking Pops literally set me up so good,
right growing up. He set me up so good, and
I freaking went andft it up right, Like, yeah, I
could sit here and blame like this organization didn't let
me long to us. This organization told me to save
(15:56):
my bullets, right, like my career, right, it's my arm.
Figure out what works for you, dude, and stick to
your guns. That's it, because at the end of the day,
you gotta live with yourself. So there's my throwback for
the day. Some freaking eighty pooh mechanics just looking trash.
(16:19):
Look at the drive leg dude, the drive legs just fallen,
not even existent arms. Just like what am I doing?
Torso and hips are going together, I create a little
bit of stretch, dude. But it's like I'm disconnected, you
know again. I went through big time mental issues in
twenty thirteen, and honestly, I couldn't locate a fastball to
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save my life. So I started throwing a crap ton
of breaking balls because that was like the one thing
that I could throw for a strike because of the
low expectations. So I started throwing a crap ton of those,
but it was all about landing them, you know. So
I think my body just naturally started to organize in
a different way, the land breaking balls instead of like
I'm trying to throw fastballs, trying to throw cheddar gets
(17:00):
through the catcher's face mask. Right, Like, take one thing
from this, dude, your mind, Like what your thinking matters, dude,
And it matters when it comes to the way your
body organizes. Because if you're thinking too much about specific
mechanical movements, dude, you're probably gonna move like a robot.
I know from experience. Be athletics. Stay athletic. Simplicity is
(17:23):
the gateway to athleticism. Learn how much you can take
on mentally as you go, right, I try to take
on everything mentally and I couldn't you know that was
that was probably where I went wrong. Anyways, hopefully this helps, dude.
If you know someone that struggles mentally with their mechanics,
man send him this. Hey. But that's why I do it, dude,
(17:44):
That's why I do this thing. You know. I failed
a crap ton Throughout my journey, I learned a lot
I didn't apply, But now I have a purpose to
give back this information to you guys, so hopefully you
don't make the same mistakes. All right, you guys want
to see is seam shift split pay. It's appropriate that
I'm wearing this shirt too, right, Gosh, it's frustrating. Man.
(18:09):
In high school, high school, I'm trying to get drafted.
I'm trying to go as high as I possibly can.
So honestly, the mindset wasn't even like results based. I
was at a small school, like the results were going
to come naturally because I threw over ninety. But it
was like the mental task was throw as hard as
I freaking can because the harder I can throw, the
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higher I'll go, and the more I'll get paid, you
know what I mean. So like simplification, there induced those
high school mechanics, which I still say are like so
fricking elite, you know, because I'm literally just throwing one
hundred and eighty pounds slinging it, and then you know,
I get drafted to go through pro ball, and it's
like just the mental kind of objective changed, and that changed.
(18:56):
My physical movements changed the way that I move, even
like I was putting on weight getting stronger and I
was throwing slower. So dude, the mental piece is so big.
Thoughts become things. How you think matters. One encouragement, biggest encouragement,
Think aggressive, And I know it's so easier said than done, dude,
(19:18):
but if you can think aggressive and you can stay
aggressive with your thoughts, then the body will be aggressive.
The body will follow suit. It starts in the mind
and then the body follows. So train this to be
in whatever state you personally have to be in to
be at your best, which goes into a whole separate
conversation of identification. But you figure that out, and then
(19:44):
you figure that out, you'll see results. All right, that
was fun. Much love guys. As always, if you have
any questions, reach out to me the Robby Roadshow dot
com slash ask take you to my question platform, and
if you want to work with me remotely, the Robby
Roadshow dot com slash coaching. All right, thanks guys, thanks
for listening to my rant. See here
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