After re-centering himself and finding his purpose again in baseball, Ty is making a comeback with the LA Angles. In our discussion, Ty discusses some of the self-evaluation, analytics, processes, and routines that have helped him find success.
Strength in Numbers #39
Scouting used to be an art and not a science. Yet, baseball has adopted more objective insights in evaluating talent in the current landscape.
Scouting has expanded from ball flight characteristics such as spin rates, break charting, spin efficiency, throwing velocities, exit velocities, and launch angles to appreciate process metrics associated…
One scout who’s been in the game for a while is Carlos Gomez. Not only does he have experience pitching professionally, but he’s been working within baseball for over a decade. In that time he’s learned to assess the qualities of elite players.
Strength in Numbers #38
In overseeing the performance of your athletes, are you for or against the thought of involving data? It's a question that many people in the baseball industry face.
Is more data useful data? How do I know what data is the right data to go by in working with my athletes? …
Luke is a former Division-I baseball pitcher and graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program. He is a sports residency-trained physical therapist, certified athletic trainer, and strength and conditioning specialist.
Strength in Numbers #37
It has been an incredibly busy week for us. Our list of Certified ArmCare Specialists has been growing, and I am starting to get questions from students about running research studies involving our technology.
The best part of what we offer is that anyone can be a sports scientist. Below are the main features in sports…
This is like the cliff notes of Arm Care.
Sit down with our pitching and performance specialist as the dive into the reasons why players get injured and what their programs are missing.
Strength in Numbers #36
Baseball and softball are similar in some ways but very different in others. Nothing is more evident than the pitching delivery between overhand and underhand.
When you look at the movements between both deliveries, softball deliveries start with the toes pointed toward home plate, opposed to baseball pitchers who have their toes oriented at 90…
Toni is leading the charge by implementing the latest technology such as ArmCare and Rapsodo with the players that she coaches.
Strength in Numbers #35
All 30 MLB teams evaluate their athletes' biomechanics, especially when it comes to scouting amateurs.
Although, what constitutes perfect biomechanics?
I have no idea because biomechanics research does not have enough evidence to link biomechanics to injury. And despite the overwhelming information that shows biomechanical attributes in high-velocity pitchers (here's a recent…