Fear gets you nowhere!!  Plain and simple. When you play with fear, pitch with fear, live with fear, more fear tends to show up. Doesn’t it? That’s because you are attracting it into your life. Now if you want to starve that bastard monster out of existence,
Embrace the fear as an opportunity to get better.

Sure, it may scare the pants off of you at first. The very thought of entering the unknown. So think of it this way,

Fear stands for:

False

Evidence

Appearing

Real

Most of the things that hold you back, are absolutely nothing! You just haven’t tested those waters yet! Therefore, you don’t know how good you can be.

Fear Gets You Nowhere
Examples

You may be fearful of pitching inside to hitters. I would be more afraid of hitters getting comfortable from not pitching inside…that is real. All it takes is running a pitch in on a hitter and moving his hands or feet, and then you quickly realize that he may be hesitant to dive out over the plate after that. Quickly, you see how much this enhances your Slider…

 

Perhaps you only throw fastballs when behind in the count. That is just giving into hitters after unsuccessfully executing a few pitches. Don’t make it easier to them. They always, ALWAYS have to EARN it from you!

Fear Gets You Nowhere
Enhance Yourself

Take a chance to challenge yourself. When you learn more about what you are capable of doing, your conviction will carry you through. You will not get any better by avoiding the things upon which you know you need to improve. Think about that..

Operating from a standpoint of fear, no matter how infrequent, makes a pitcher very predictable to hitters. That is a HUGE NO NO when you take the MOUND!!! By challenging hitters you are also challenging yourself. You may get beat early on in an adjustment phase. However, the bigger victory is knowing that you persevered through the fear. You walked towards the fire. Now, the matter has shifted to making an adjustment of execution. That is operating on a higher frequency. Better things will happen.

Go forward and you will survive it all. He who serves the most, grows the fastest. In this case, serve yourself and reap the benefits, rapidly! Because, baseball has some amazing perks!

Fear Gets You Nowhere
You Think They Guys Were Fearful?

Congrats to Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay, and Mike Mussina on the Election to the Baseball Hall of Fame! These 3 fierce competitors defined their careers by the presence they had on the mound. No matter how big the situation was, they all rose to the the occasion and pitched with the conviction that they are best suited to WIN! Together, they join Lee Smith as the 4 pitchers to be enshrined in Cooperstown this summer along with Harold Baines and Edgar Martinez. Congrats to the newly elected Class of 2019!  

 

KEEP DOMINATING!!!