Pitchers: The Great Thinkers of the Game of Baseball Baseball is a game that involves constant thinking. There is never a moment when a player is not thinking. Besides the coach, the player that does the most thinking is the pitcher. When on the mound the pitcher is faced with a wide variety of challenges that he must think out before he throws the next pitch. Figuring out what to throw next is the biggest …showed first 75 words of 921 total…

…showed last 75 words of 921 total…to lose the game. Whoever said that baseball was easy and required no thinking never really played the game of baseball. The pitcher, especially, is thinking constantly. Each pitch that the pitcher throws requires a great deal of thinking. This is the reason that pitching is an art that requires a great deal of thinking and hard work. This hard work and intensive thinking requires a great love and drive for the game of baseball.