In this episode Dan discusses whether youth pitchers should vary their leg kick timing to disrupt hitters – is it good or harmful for their development? Should college pitchers take a gap year in 2020? And, are sports drinks a good nutritional choice during a game? To submit a question for the Q&A segment, email a voice recording to Dan at [email protected]. Want to support the show? Buy a copy of Dear Baseball Gods on Kindle or Paperback, or listen on audiobook. Or, pick up Pitching Isn’t Complicated, his advanced-but-understandable pitching manual. Enroll in one of Coach Dan’s online pitching courses or his mental skills course. Use code BASEBALL GODS to save 20% on any course, just for being a listener. Sign up for Dan’s Email list and get a free pitching checklist, and follow up with him on the interwebs: YouTube Channel | Twitter | Danblewett.com Full Transcript: Dear Baseball Gods EP90 – Should You Take a Baseball Gap Year? Is Gatorade Bad for You and Should Pitchers Vary Leg Kick Timing? You’re listening to the deer baseball gods podcast. I’m Dan Blewett. And on this show, you’ll learn advanced concepts in baseball. Explain simply I’m here to guide you on your baseball journey and help you paddle through. What’s now an ocean of misinformation, guruism, and overly technical diamondbabble. Hey, welcome back to dear baseball gods. This is Dan Blewett. So today we’re going to cover three pretty interesting topics. Number one, should you take a gap year as a young athlete? Who’s head off to college next season, which is something that we’ve really never talked about before, but it’s a. So the question originally posed to me. So I want to cover that a little bit today in our 90 second mindset segment, we’re going to cover sports drinks and whether these are actually necessary and healthy things. And then in our final question, we’re going to cover whether changing your timing as a pitcher. So like different speed, delayed kicks, pausing, different stuff like that, which you see a little bit more in majorly baseball today, whether or not that’s a good thing. So let’s start with taking a gap year. So obviously with coronavirus, this is such a weird unprecedented time and there might not be baseball at a lot of college. I think it’s still up in the air. And I know there’s some colleges that have said, Hey, we’re not doing fall sports, or we’re not doing sports at all in 20, 20, 20 slash 2021 seasons. So this is obviously really concerning. And it’s an interesting time. Um, I appreciate Jason, you asked me this question. But,