In my opinion, sprints should always be a part of any baseball player’s program, even pitchers.  Sprinting is the most primitive form of training and the forces and speed that it creates cannot be replicated in the gym.  The role of sprinting and how it relates to pitching will be today’s focus.  The inspiration for…

Your ability to jump with and without weights might be a crucial clue to finding your velocity recipe. This research by Huang et al. that I covered in part one had some interesting findings that I felt necessary to explore and share. For a quick refresher here are the 3 factors that contributed to throwing…

The pitching world adores ratios.  They put things into context and, in general, are better predictors of success. Knowing that a pitcher gets lots of strikeouts doesn’t give you as much context as their K/BB ratio. This pitching ratio provides us with more information at a glance that we can use to make positive adjustments…

I’ve finally pushed this e-book across the finish line!! Click here to download it for free (just enter $0 at the checkout) If you’ve been reading this site for a while you will know that this e-book is a collection of articles that I’ve written over the course of several years. Each article explores the…

If you have read any or all of the chapters that preceded this one, I hope that you have learned a thing or two. You might have even gotten answers to questions you didn’t know you had. But the ultimate question is how do I use this kind of in-depth information in the real world…