Strength in Numbers #61
College baseball is a different beast. There are no call-ups when someone gets hurt. The coaches not only have to develop athletes, but they must coach to win. That means you may bunt, squeeze, and play someone out of their position to get the victory.
It is good to see that…
Ryan Crotin, PhD CSCS RSCC, Executive Vice President
Strength in Numbers #60
We delivered education at a couple of cool places in Louisiana. Last week we touched on Louisiana Tech, an ass-kicking facility in Ruston, LA where I am a faculty member. The second was Top Velocity, owned by Brent Porciau, a pioneer in velocity enhancement methods who does not use weighted balls.
Brent…
Strength in Numbers #59
When I started with ArmCare.com, I was attracted by the fact that I could work remotely and stay in Arizona. It's been a year and a half, and I have realized that talking to people on zoom about the importance of throwing arm health and performance is much different than being with someone in person.
I like to educate and demonstrate, and really cannot accomplish the same coaching dynamics with video.
I presented…
If you are performing sports science research, you need to go the extra mile and calculate the Effect Size of the findings. This puts the differences in means on the same scale and allows the audience to interpret just how big those differences are between groups.
Strength in Numbers #58
"With the 106th pick, the San Francisco Giants select..."
I've been at a bunch of MLB Amateur Drafts in the War Room with the Los Angeles Angels, and it's pretty crazy.
Scouts and coaches are fighting for players, and front office members are on the phone, wheeling and dealing for the best players possible from the pick of the litter. You then go to a magnet board and start shuffling names and get pissed when…
Over the past two weeks, I told you why I hate the word “efficiency”, why you should hate the word “efficiency”, and gave you only two definitions of efficiency (Pitch Efficiency and Biomechanical Efficiency) that could shed a little light on the shade I had thrown on the word.
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Last week we talked about why I hate the word “efficiency” in describing pitching mechanics and how the true meaning of pitching efficiency can be obscured and at times, disconnected from its true meaning—throwing less pitches per inning.
In my mind, this means pitchers are throwing deeper into games, displaying command, and able to induce weak contact to convert on outs.
Whatever way you look at it, the…
Strength in Numbers #55
Have you ever said a pitcher has an “efficient delivery?"
If so, I will tell you why you cannot use the word in general terms and how you can quantify “efficiency” to make this determination accurate, meaningful, and, most importantly, actionable.
In the context of “efficiency,” we wrote a piece a while ago that gives some definitions as it relates to…
Baseball sports science is looking for the Holy Grail in predicting injury and maximizing throwing velocity. In this ArmCare FX, a new metric is introduced uniting performance and injury prevention in one biomechanical metric.
Although predicting injury using 3D motion capture alone has not been done, Biomechanical Efficiency Grades get us closer and can…
Alright, you have made it to the third part of this series. You can get caught up here...
An Evidence-Based Reason Behind Throwing Arm Injuries: Part 1
An Evidence-Based Reason Behind Throwing Arm Injuries: Part 2
I told you I would spoon-feed the details of why starters get hurt, but now I need to tell…