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Building Baseball Speed Part 3
This article will hopefully give you a couple of ideas of how to integrate sprint training into a baseball practice. Before that I would really like stress how important it is to dedicate at least one 30-45 minute block on sprint/acceleration training per week. After all it is one of the Tools that make up a complete…
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Building Baseball Speed Part 2
Welcome back to my series of how to help baseball players run faster so that they both can score more runs on offensive side of the game while also taking runs away on the defensive side by tracking down the baseball. Part 1 went into a lot of detail about just how fast big league…
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Building Baseball Speed – Part 1
I have been addicted to watching every Statcast video on MLB.com I can get my hands on. The combination of highlight reel plays coupled with the athletic stats these big league athletes produce has me hooked!! The videos that I love the most are when they show you how fast these guys can run, both…
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Big League Combine – Player Selection
This article is a follow up to my most popular article of all time where I describe the athletic tests that I think should be included into a combine for baseball players. You can read it here Since the time I published that article I have had a lot of conversations with coaches (both strength and…
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How Big is He Now and How Big Will He Get?? – Taking Testing to the Next Level
How Big is He Now & How Big Will He Get?? From a purely athletic point of view, the #1 thing that we are looking for when selecting a baseball player is their ability to produce power. The kind of power that we want for throwing a baseball really hard can be produced in different…