I coached college baseball for 30 years, 1992-2022. Since then, I’ve run been running College Baseball Advisors, where I help kids develop, help them manage the recruiting process, help them perform in college, and then play in the summer and after college.

I’ve developed this course called Develop Elite Pitchability.

Yes, I know, everyone wants velocity, and of course velocity matters. Velocity gets you looked at, velocity helps you move up levels, velocity can keep your career going.

However, when it comes to actually performing in games, while velocity is great and a weapon, it’s more about pitchability.

The modern world is training kids to be stronger and throw harder, with a very proven method. Most of you all winter-long trained on how to get stronger and throw harder, which again, has its place in the baseball world.

However, pitchability is being lost. What is pitchability? Pitchability is having elite command. How do you train for elite command? How do you develop different speeds on your fastball? How do you have reliable, throw-at-any-time secondary pitches, including an actual changeup you can use in games. How do you perform under pressure? Can you deal with different mounds, different game situations? Are you consistent?

Developing elite pitchability is about how to get outs. The job of a pitcher is to get outs. Once you’re on a college team, the coach doesn’t say, “The highest velocity guy is the Friday night guy, the second-velocity thrower is the Saturday guy.” It’s, “Who is the guy that gets the most outs?” You need to discover the way to get outs.

I see so many kids, well-meaning kids, kids who are working their butts off all winter and have gained velocity. Yet, I’m tracking them halfway through the college season, they have 13.00 ERAs, and 15.00 ERAs, and more walks than strikeouts. Something is missing, and it’s pitchability. Pitchability is missing. If you look at all old school pitchers, they had elite pitchability.

Ideally, you’re going to learn how to blend modern strength training and modern velocity improvement, with old-school developing pitchability tactics to get people out.

You’ll be consistent, you’ll get more innings, you’ll get more outs and you’ll keep your career going.

This is a self-paced video-based course that can be done any time during the course of the year, in-season, out-of-season, post-season, pre-season – it does not matter. You learn as you go, and you can put these things into practice.

It’s worth thousands of dollars, but I know the world is more sexy to look at velocity: “I can get you 10 miles-per-hour, 15 miles-per-hour,” – I’ve done all the velo programs.

What I’m trying to help you do is actually get more people out. How do you train your delivery? What are key mechanics? What are practice plans? What are concepts that help you develop elite pitchability and become one of the best pitchers on your team?

Wayne Mazzoni coached college baseball from 1992-2022, and currently runs CollegeBaseballAdvisor.com.