How Do You Throw A Grodski Change Up Pitch?
“So first grip we are going to show, and I already showed that was the circle change where we pulled our grip, fingertips, pointer finger and thumb together. The other one that I would like to show and I find is really great for younger kids and I call it the Grodski change. It was a pitcher that while I was in the Detroit Tiger organization that showed me he was kind of a crazy old man, loved him but he was a crazy old man. He would scare us to death on the mound, you know a man at seventy-three years old who would show us a change up, you weren’t sure if he was really going to let it go or what was going to happen. The grip that he showed us and I find I use this all the time with especially with younger pitchers, the guys that don’t have much control over their change up, is that we basically put three fingers over the ball, and just start with our middle finger right down the middle of the ball, two other fingers on the outside edges of the two seam and we can hold our fingers how
