Category: 5 Tools

  • You need stronger legs to Pitch than we thought!!!

    We all know that you need strong legs to pitch but a new study, which isn’t even published yet, is telling us that they need to be stronger than we originally thought. Jonathan Broxton, now with the Royals, needs his big tree trunk legs to handle his big frame (6’4″ – 295lbs) and produce his big…

  • Jogging Kills Your Power – Studies You Should Know About

    Baseball is a game of POWER, power pitchers and power hitters dominate the game and get the attention of coaches, scouts and fans.  Every play in baseball lasts only a few seconds and the two main actions, swing and throwing, requires less than a second.  Despite these facts endurance training has been emphasised for years which…

  • Pitching 8 months a Year Might not be a Great Idea – Studies you should know about

    The study in question today comes from the Dr. Andrews lab in the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. Risk Factors for Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in Adolescent Baseball Pitchers By: Samuel J. Olsen II, MD, Glenn S. Fleisig,* PhD, Shouchen Dun, MS, Jeremy Loftice, and James R. Andrews, MD What did they want…

  • The New & Improve 60 Yard Dash

    The new and improved 60 yard dash Baseball is a game steeped in great traditions but our means of evaluating a baseball player’s athletic ability by having them run 60 yards in a straight line is one tradition that we should change. The reason for improving the 60 yard dash is that it is not…

  • Back at it

    I apologize for the lengthily delay between posts but here are my excuses of what I have been doing baseball wise. 1. I was writing my thesis which I will discuss in later articles about the lower body’s contribution to throwing velocity. 2. I was the head coach for the Junior Cannons of the Premier…