About Pitcher's Pocket

Our Story

Better Baseball, LLC manufactures Pitcher's Pocket, the 9-hole pitching target that also gets called a pitching pocket net in coaching circles. Both names point at the same numbered pockets. One thing the name never tells you: which zone size fits your pitcher, and getting that wrong costs a season of frustrated reps.

A parent whose son moved up to high school ball quit catching bullpens because the hand stung after twenty pitches. The Original went up in the backyard that week, and the calls came from a lawn chair: seven, then three, then seven again. The coach logged the accuracy climbing across that season, and the sore wrist never came back.

What ships is the target and its legs. No resistance bands, no mesh sack, no bucket of weighted balls padding the carton. You get a steel frame that keeps its shape, pockets that keep score, and coverage that runs a full year on everything and five limited years on the frame. Your money buys steel and mesh, not filler.

Two tiers come off the same production line. The Pro telescopes to a four-foot overall height and wears a red skin; the Original stands 45 in H x 35 in W in royal blue and holds a wider target for an arm still finding the plate. A 10U pitcher who lands eight of thirty in the corner pockets on the Original is ready for the tighter zone; that transition usually shows up in the tally before anyone announces it.

The build spec stays the same across both. Galvanized steel tubing carries the load, industrial gauge #60 mesh takes the impact, and an 18 oz vinyl skin over 1.5 inches of impact foam absorbs the liner that misses everything. Leave the target on a driveway through a wet August, wipe the tubing dry, and the galvanizing does the job the paint on a cheaper frame cannot.

Nothing else rides in the carton. Open it and you find the target and its detachable legs, no bucket of weighted balls and no mesh sack padding the box. That choice draws a complaint in the reviews from buyers who wanted a carry bag, and it is a fair one. The trade is that the money goes into gauge and steel rather than accessories that end up in the garage.