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

You practice all off-season, then you’re going to get to college, and you might throw your first bullpen before you get in the game.

“Holy crap, that thing I was working on with John back at the facility is not working.” Guess what, you better find something that works in three pitches so you can get the guy out. Then you can reflect on it later that night.

But if you don’t understand how to adjust, or think for yourself, or you’re worrying about the feedback from your coach, it’s going to be hard to be good at pitching, or playing any sport, or doing anything. It’s very difficult.

Not everybody is talking about these real-life things. These are real-life scenarios that you need to understand, that is going to happen, and you better learn to adjust.

If your bullpen goes bad and you panic, honestly, you’re not in the right head space. Whoever you’re talking to or learning from is not giving you reality.

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