The Rawlings Pro Line 3 Wheel Baseball Pitching Machine features a revolutionary design featuring a Top Speed of 100mph & the capability of throwing every breaking ball pitch as well as fastballs with the unmatched precision and ease of a 3 wheel machine. 3 wheel design provides 3 main benefits over two wheel design. First, 3 wheels have better contact with the ball for better pitch control. It's like throwing a baseball with three fingers rather than 2. Secondly, the batter can easily see the ball the entire time it is on the ball feeder ramp, helping batters time the pitch. Two wheel machines can obscure a batter's view of the ball, particularly when in a vertical orientation. Finally, utilizing three wheels does away with being forced to rotate the machine to change pitch type. Pitch break is completely determined by the speed of the three wheels, so setup is easier, you simply choose the type of pitch and the amount of rotation with a couple of clicks of the LED dial.. Pitch Selection/Pitch Placement: Pitches are selected by directly setting the pitch speed, spin direction, and spin amount on the control panel. The machine uses these inputs to automatically adjust the individual wheel speeds required to generate the selected speed and spin. All you need to do to aim the machine is turn the two hand adjustment wheels. Each wheel is connected via worm gear to the pivoting frame to allow precise, controlled adjustments to dial in strike after strike. Spin amount is also set directly as none, low, medium or high. This system yields a total of 37 different pitches available at any speed from 40 mph - 100 mph. Power: This machine may be powered by a standard household outlet or a portable gas generator. The machine will pull a maximum continuous load of 6 Amps (720 Watts) at 120V AC, but werecommend a generator capacity of 1000W minimum. Speed Range: 40-100 mph Baseball, 36-90 mph Softball. Combo Option Available: Rawlings offers th
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Great machine
I have had this machine for three weeks with about 10 hours of use so far and we are very happy with our purchase. My son is in high school and we needed a machine that could throw all the quality pitches you see at that level. This machine does that and more. The machine was easy to assemble out of the box. You just needed to bolt on the ball chute and wheels for transporting. Once assembled we adjusted the machine for leather baseballs which again was easy. The manual was lacking and not much help but the machine is designed well enough that it was pretty easy to figure it out. The machine is very accurate with decent balls, but as well documented, the quality of balls used is a big factor in any machines accuracy performance. Using the machine is easy. The speed , spin direction and spin speed all work as advertised and make changing pitches a breeze. The vertical and horizontal dials are also easy to adjust, going from a fastball to a curve requires only a small up and to the right/left adjustment and you are back in the strike zone.We decided on this machine over the hack attack because this machine was 50 pounds lighter and we needed to transport it from our house to the field for each use. Even though It is lighter it is still 120 pounds and takes some strength to lift and drop, it is bulky.It is easier with 2 people. To help with moving this machine I did end up making and bolting on two handles since there was no convientant place to grab the machine while on the ground, that helped a lot and would recommend to Rawlings that they add handles as an improvement. One negative was the rubber end caps on each leg was not steel reinforced so the legs with that weight cut through the ends in less than a week. I ended up buying some steel reinforced ends for 5 bucks and solved that problem, but for 3 grand+ I would expect the manufacturer to have better caps.As for performance I give this machine 5 stars but rated it 4 due to end cap issue and no handles to help with moving it. Both easy items to fix if the designers/ engineers would actually use their products.(A problem with many designs on too many products these days).All in all we took a chance on this machine with there currently being not too much information online since it's pretty new and are very happy with the purchase. It's a top of the line machine that can throw any pitch needed and is still light enough to transport.
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This machine is by far the best out there
This machine is by far the best out there! I absolutely love it. It's design is great, the accuracy is unrivaled, it hits 100 mph, and it is candy red!!! I bought this machine for my son and I because I wanted a machine that is extremely accurate, consistent, and could pitch every pitch out there. This does that and I love it. I will be making a video review soon, so you can see it's accuracy. Just as an example, I can place a ball on a tee 60 ft away and hit it no problem.
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