Leo Mazzone On How To Develop Arm Strength

If you want to develop arm strength, throw the ball, says Leo Mazzone, current pitching coach for the Baltimore Orioles (and formerly of the Atlanta Braves). Throwing gives you arm strength.

Here is a simple program to develop velocity: Throw every day, without maxing out your effort. I believe in picking up a baseball and throwing it every chance you get.

Around here, we don't discourage a pitcher from throwing. In fact, we encourage it. What you have to do is regulate the effort. For example, if I told you that you were going to run seven miles in a week, would you feel better running seven miles in one day or one mile, seven days in a row. We bring pitchers in two weeks before spring training and put them through a throwing program.

It works well for us.

Eventually, I think pitchers are better off with year-round throwing. I don't think it's good to not throw for three months. Play catch every day.