Whats the best pitch in baseball?
I know this may sound like a strange question to ask on a fishing blog but this question was posed to me many years ago, when I was playing minor league baseball for the Yankees, and I believe the principle behind it’s answer is applicable to fishing as well. I was on a team filled with talented pitchers. Some of us had tremendous fastballs, some of us had nasty changeups, and I was gifted with wicked curveball. We were all having one problem though. We were walking a lot of people. So one day, our pitching coach pulled the pitching staff aside and asked us all, “What’s the best pitch in baseball.” One guy said, “a fastball”, another guy said, “a curve ball”, and another guy said that the best pitch in baseball was a changeup. The coach just laughed and said that we were all wrong. The best pitch in baseball was a strike. It didn’t matter the style of the pitch you threw if it wasn’t a strike, he said. You can’t control if the batter will hit the “strike” you throw but you can be prett
