Each month at The Baseball Collegian, we will highlight insights from Brooks Hall that can be found on his Soul Throwers Instagram page.

Everyone on the internet is chasing some “hack” to get better at baseball.
Like there’s a magic drill… a magic cue… a magic metric… some secret sauce that turns you into an MLB arm overnight.

But here’s the truth nobody wants to hear:

The hack is the simple stuff.

Old-school baseball guys weren’t dumb. They weren’t behind.
They just understood reality:

Can you backspin the ball through the zone?
No? Cool — then let’s get you to throw a true two-seam.
Now let’s get you shaping a breaking ball slider, sweeper, slurve, whatever fits YOU.

People say: “I wish I had his slider.”
Yeah bro… everyone does.
But that guy was born with that slider. God wrote that pitch into his DNA.

That doesn’t mean you can’t reach your ceiling.
It doesn’t mean you’re capped.
It means you need to stop chasing someone else’s gifts and master your own.

Getting better is literally this simple:

Work.
Reps.
Consistency.
Repeat.

Just like riding a bike: at first you suck, years later you’re cruising no-hands.
That’s baseball.
That’s life.

And yeah injuries happen.
Life isn’t fair.
Earth is beautiful and dangerous at the same time.
But all you can do is do the best with what YOU were given.

Brooks Hall was drafted in 2009 in the fourth round out of high school, and has spent 13 years pitching professionally with the Brewers, Diamondbacks, Mets, as well as in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Australia and Taiwan and currently in the Mexican League.

He has joined with Seth Blair, a nine-year pro pitcher and first-rounder from Arizona State, to teach pitching remotely through their training program, Soul Throwers.

“We take our own approach when it comes to finding the path for you. We start with a full body assessment and then determine your body’s capacity. We find ways to go back to the basics and find a way to turn the brain off and just play. We have more of a holistic approach compared to the industry. Our favorite thing is to throw gas and win on the mound and mold players to do the same thing.

“We’ve helped hundreds of players gain velocity, get rid of anxiety, create confidence they never thought they would have, look at baseball in a different lens, and much much more. We are trying to help people gain perspective on what they are trying to accomplish. We are just helping shape real humans that want to keep playing baseball.”
– SoulThrowers.com