Heater Sports Deuce 75 MPH Adjustable Baseball Pitching Machine with Automatic Ball Feeder - Delivers Fastballs & Curveballs, Suitable for All Ages | Compatible with Pitching Machine & Real Baseballs

I would have to say this is the best pitching machine I am very impressed at the quality of the Duce 75 we have put five 600 balls through it and it is dead on accurate with real baseballs. Totally impressed. Very happy with the purchase also is a very heavy and sturdy machine.

I've coupled a Westinghouse Igen2550 portable generator with this to run the 2 wheels and feeder.Bought a Timber Ridge 300 Wagon to move all from car to field.I've replaced the thumbscrews on legs with T-handle screws (5/16 - 18 coarse thread) and installed easily removable screws on the wheel covers to adjust/check air (installing rivnuts and wingbolts).Not practical to carry an allen wrench and too time consuming to remove the 6 screws.Machine states real baseballs are preferred, so I'm using raised seam Rawlings R-100P balls.Playing catch from 60 feet and this is popping in my glove at setting 7... I've learned settings to achieve knuckle balls and breaking pitches and there is lots of movement.Highly recommend you play catch with this machine before standing at the plate with it..Seamed balls come fast and with movement like real pitches...After catching balls from the machine, I have a lot more confidence how variable the pitches can be.If you want dead straight balls, used dimpled balls.This is a big investment ($500 gen, $100 wagon, $Balls) but local cages are charging 20 cents/ball and I think I'll get my value over time with this very well build machine.10.24.24 Update: Don't waste money with real balls. A few hundred dollars in baseballs chewed up.. Get the dimpled yellow balls.

I received the machine today set it up was easy and all was great. A few minor flaws with the 3 screws for the legs don’t go all the way in to lock in the legs . But over all great product . The only issues that I had is the wheel seem to be dry rotted , signs of a few lines was in the tires and when I air it up to the correct psi, the lines faded away. But after running about 15-25 balls at 5 speed , the tires stated to flake and shred on the inside which built up and was causing the ball to eventually drop but not feed to the wheel to shoot out. is it possible I can get a replacement set of wheels? Or do I need to return the item and order a new unit ? ( note I use the recommended yellow dot balls )

Very nice. Works really nice. It is very fast.

This pitching machine has been good. Used it for about 9 months without much issue. Dialed all the way up, it seems to produce a decent fast ball up to high school speeds, though our cage is 40' long.The issue comes when there is an issue. The machine started to wobble very badly so i immediately checked the tire pressures again. One tire was totally out of pressure. Aired it back up, verified everything else was tight, reassembled the covers and back in business.... for a week. That wobble I guess did something to the bottom motor and it suddenly locked up and started throwing sparks. So time to start calling heater sports to look at getting a replacement part.Called the 800 number on the instructions and they had me leave a message for them to call me back to get it situated.. So far haven't heard from anyone at all. Went to their website and everything says to call the sales line. Tried emailing and calling multiple times, same story.Again, If I can get a replacement motor everything will work well. If something goes wrong with this machine, doesn't appear the company is very eager to help make it right.

I am extremely impressed with this pitching machine. Once I was able to figure out how to inflate the rubber tires correctly, it was all a go. It has been great for my son for hitting practice and he is an aspiring catcher. The repetition is a huge benefit. The most fun has been launching fly balls from our deck, to our yard below.

Bought this machine in March and its tube got punctured with in a month and a half, contacted Amazon and they told me to contact the seller since machine is still under warranty. Contacted the seller and was told to take the wheel out and send them in (at my cost) so that they can replace the tube and send it back to me. Why cant they just send me a tube? Secondly, the machine has 10 levels of speed, it runs fine till level 6 but if u try to increase the speed, above 6, the machine and its feeder make alot of noise and vibrates like hell and first ball in the feeder jumps into the wheels by itself (without me turning the feeder switch on) so if i am not ready i will be hit by the ball. I was excited about this machine when i got it but it turned out to be a headache in the end.

I’ve only used it twice but so far it’s a great machine for the price