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My experience comes from working with pitchers, but it's not that different from throwing a football.  I would sometimes try to get righties to shorten up their release when making a move to first base, because a quicker, more compact motion gets the ball over there faster.  Largely a waste of time:  the guys with long motions were pretty much incapable of making the change to a "short-arm" throw and still maintaining any accuracy.  The motion is just too ingrained from 10's of 1000's of reps.

What level of baseball did you coach? How much effort did you put into changing this behavior? Did your pitchers practice shorter motions in the off season? Did you have trouble teaching pitchers new pitches? Were you able to improve a pitcher's curve and fast balls?

[Extra Point]

My experience comes from working with pitchers, but it's not that different from throwing a football.  I would sometimes try to get righties to shorten up their release when making a move to first base, because a quicker, more compact motion gets the ball over there faster.  Largely a waste of time:  the guys with long motions were pretty much incapable of making the change to a "short-arm" throw and still maintaining any accuracy.  The motion is just too ingrained from 10's of 1000's of reps.

What level of baseball did you coach? How much effort did you put into changing this behavior? Did your pitchers practice shorter motions in the off season? Did you have trouble teaching pitchers new pitches? Were you able to improve a pitcher's curve and fast balls?