Detroit – Tigers pitching coach Rick Anderson has a little visualization trick he uses with his pitchers. He tells them to envision a spiral in the middle of the plate.
“You want to try to stay in the middle of that spiral,” he said. “Once you start thinking, ‘Oh, I didn’t make a good pitch there. Oh, should’ve thrown a different pitch there. Oh, I’ve given up a hit,’ you start getting outside that spiral.”
On Wednesday night, Tigers starter Matthew Boyd was spinning in large circles outside that spiral.