Talk:Pitching position

Need a windup photo

Anyone know of a good photo of a pitcher in the windup? All I can find on WP is images of pitchers pitching from the set. --Locarno 15:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

there seems to be a few words missing

I've never done this. Apologies if I'm not doing it right. I was trying to figure out what a balk was and i noticed that there seems to be a few words missing in the description of the windup. There is no mention of the rubber. The description of the set includes the words, "in front of and touching the rubber," and it seems like something similar to that needs to be in the description of the windup. ryan 69.121.125.253 03:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, maybe it was accidentally deleted? I'll let you go ahead and change it. Everyone is welcome to be bold and just start making changes they think are good. For help with Wikipedia editing, take a look at:

Wikipedia:Introduction and all the links there
Wikipedia:Five pillars
Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset

Locarno

Looks like someone else already edited it. Oh well, perhaps you can edit something else. Locarno

Three positions?

If there are two positions why are there three terms in bold? Someone needs to make up their mind on what to call the second position. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.151.231 (talk) 01:01, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

I've edited to make it clear that the stretch is part of the set. Locarno 12:51, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pitchers set position - 45% angle between home and first base - leagl??

Please advise if a right hand throwing pitcher can come to set position from the stretch with his front foot positioned at about a 45 degree angle or half way between homeplate and first base? Is this legal?

Thanks,MJC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.240.181.240 (talk) 23:05, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, in practice, the free foot can come set almost anywhere; the rules though state that it may be anywhere "in front of" the pitcher's plate". Enforcing a violation of this rule would be a "don't do that" situation--a warning and ejection if continued willful violation occurs. Locarno (talk) 15:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'best position', Possible vandalism?

Under the header 'Strengths and weaknesses' the following sentence was added: "Pitcher is by far the best position in baseball." This reads like vandalism to me, however I have pretty much zero knowledge about baseball, so I'm not sure if 'best position' is simply a term I don't understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErfeoM (talk • contribs) 14:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I removed that sentence. It's an opinion and non-encyclopedic in both tone and substance.Nightshift49 (talk) 16:24, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]