About Dick Mills

I am a former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. I was a second round draft pick June of 1966, having been drafted proviously by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philidelphia Phillies. I pitched for the Red Sox from 1966-1971 with some brief appearances in the big leagues in 1970.

In my first big league camp, I roomed with Calton “Pudge” Fisk and played with other Hall of Famers such as Carl “Yaz” Yastremski and other notable players like Bill “Spaceman” Lee, Rico Petrocelli, Jim Lonborg, Ken “the Hawk” Harrilson and the late Tony Conigliaro. I am a Boston native, grew up in Weymouth, MA and graduated from Thayer Academy.

My Mission as The Pitching Rebel

  • To educate baseball enthusiasts using evidence-based research, instead of belief, on how to improve pitching performance, including velocity, control, and reducing the risk of injury.
  • To uncover misinformation and time wasting activities that have not proven to work, such as long toss, weighted baseballs, weight lifting, flat ground pitching, drills, stretching, or low intensity or low volume bullpens.
  • To uncover websites that promote misinformation, which cause thousands of pitchers at all levels to fall short of their full potential.
  • To expose coaches and instructors who continue to ignore sports science research and evidence-based studies on how to improve pitching performance.
  • To help parents understand how to evaluate current pitching instruction so they don’t waste both time and money.
  • To help forward thinking and progressive baseball coaches learn and teach more advanced and proven ways to improve pitching performance that the large majority currently are not teaching.