When it comes to being a successful big-league pitcher, you often hear coaches, reporters and scouts emphasize things like command, velocity or just a pitcher’s “stuff.”
He has electric stuff.
But let’s not underrate the defense here. The pitcher still has a position to field out there, and that’s why we see those infield drills with pitchers in spring training.
Yet, there are still plenty of pitchers who struggle with their defensive game, which often leads to that especially awkward-looking error. Still, when you take all those pitcher-committed errors and put them into one video, it makes for the kind of baseball content we crave right now.
A throw to first base from the mound shouldn’t be that difficult, but that struggle is awfully fun to watch.
