How quick should pitchers pitch from the stretch?

With runners on base, a pitcher needs to deliver the baseball from the stretch position to the plate quickly and efficiently.

This can easily be accomplished by having the same delivery to the plate on every pitch and by keeping that delivery at 1.3 seconds or quicker.

1.3 seconds or quicker insures the pitcher is allowing his catcher enough time to throw a potential base runner out. I also believe that the quicker a pitcher is to the plate, the less time things can go wrong mechanically.

In my experience as a college coach, the quicker my guys are to the plate, the better they pitch. Everything comes together nicely -- and our catchers can throw guys out, which they do more times than not.