Trevor Bauer on his Mechanics

I'm here with Trevor Bauer Trevor great great year last year the first question I have for you is as I have seen your career unfold I've seen some changes and adjustments talk to me about the evolution of Trevor Bauer when he first got to the big leagues to where you are today and what a change right I came up all the way through college and high school and stuff like that I was I kind of modeled myself off Tim Lincecum I tried to move like him I tried to pitch like him and he was this four-seam big overhand curveball out of college then you know he ended up developing this foot change and then so to go from that to change in my delivery around I had some hip problems and back problems I knew I wasn't able to stay healthy from a full career if I didn't change the way I moved so eventually I shifted from a four-seam curveball guy almost primarily to my out of the cutter changeup so now I throw for seam to seam cutter change curveball and mascha added the slider finally figured out after three or four years of chasing that thing how to make it move laterally how to make him I get good swing and miss pitch you know this this offseason I was working on my changeup trying to kind of channel that Tim Lincecum split change modeled that off of like gozman and Strasburg and hopefully you know we'll see how it plays out but yeah it's just the process is basically I go into every offseason looking at like what did I do well let me make sure I do I maintain that and then in the in my spare time what can I do better can I add a pitch can i command the ball better can I throw harder can I be healthier can I learn about sequencing can I study tape and break down what hitters are hitting what they are like what is the league trending towards so I can be prepared for it stuff like that that's perfect so in a minute I'm gonna have you talk to me your mechanical key but what adjustments timewise so give me a snapshot of what it takes on a day you're pitching for you to get ready when I first started to where you are today because I think that's been a big adjustment that you've made that has allowed you to not only flourish but become your own pitcher so I came in it used to take me about hour and 45 minutes it's it takes me about an hour and 45 minutes but what I do has kind of changed I start off I sit in the hot tub go get dressed in my uniform and then I'm doing some hip positioning exercises some activation glute activation doing some core activation thoracic spine mobility warm everything up do some activation stuff in the in the weight rooms trying to add a little bit of weights and movement to it we got the bands like the Jagger bands warm up the shoulders triceps biceps pecs I just adding a little bit more and I do something I do that most people don't do is I strap 10-pound wrist weights in my hands and I'm going through a bunch of different exercises kind of getting the shoulder ready to handle that that's stress right then I go into my actual weighted ball throws so I'm making maybe 50 to 60 weighted ball throws between reverse throws forward throws stretch wind-up stuff like that and at that point I'm pretty much fully loose and warm go out to the dugout put my headphones in kind of get in the zone do my shoulder tube in front of the dugout and then a 15-minute long toss session rest for five minutes 10-minute boat concession rest for ten minutes let's get to the mound real quick because when I talk about pitching and at everything that a pitcher does he gets to a balance point he's got to get to a balance point and for some it might be conventional for you you talked about your hips yeah so talk to me about when you get in this position what you're trying to do because you're going up and then down when you create angles that not a lot of people create yeah so when I first came up I had a big turn and when I found out through I took some x-rays of my hips and stuff I just don't have that type of mobility so I went from taking a big turn and having a really high leg lift and really like accelerating myself down the mound I was putting a lot of stress on my hip so I just shortened my leg lift a little bit just a go comfortable range but in order to get into the same like position and movement that I was used to when I think of when my leg is coming up is basically having this leg drop a little bit okay so I want to start my body kind of kind of going down as I'm lifting my leg and it puts me in a position where now I can have good angles on this leg so I can drive my hips into rotation the tilt where did where's the house the upper body address yeah it comes from long toss you know all the years of like kind of throwing the ball up in the air for distance yeah warm up and stuff so when this hip goes down and this one comes up it puts my hips in a position where now my upper body just tilts okay and so I end up kind of in this position going down the mound so I can then rotate and come over the top and get so where would we cuz you every pitcher becomes his own pitching coach yep where's the one thing where if it goes bad is it stride length gets out of whack or the time what so once again Chuck it used to be stride length because I would try to drive off the mound and I had this really early extension and that's this I think they call triple extension knee ankle and hip and I was putting a lot of stress and getting myself out of whack my torso was shifting forward and all that so for me it's really about how long can I keep the front side and the front shoulder closed okay I want my rotation to happen as late in the delivery as possible that allows my hips to open up more shoulder hip separation and a lot of good things happen there so when I'm going down the mound I want to my two keys are this up and this down so I get in this position and then I'm basically just trying to keep my upper body retracted as long as I can as my hips turnover and so I end up in a position about like this at landing and from here if I've done everything right everything just flows yeah right on line perfect well that's pitching 101 and and I've learned something and all the best success continued thank you appreciate it that's cold out here thank you

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Length: 6min 5sec (365 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2019